- The Bible As It Was
- James L. Kugel
- This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Out of the Whirlwind
- Kathryn Schifferdecker
- The book of Job is a complex treatment of the problem of undeserved suffering. It is also a sustained meditation on creation, on humanity's place in creation, and on God's ordering of creation. In this study, Schifferdecker offers a close literary and theological reading of the book of Job--particularly of God's speeches at the end of the book--in order to articulate its creation theology, which is particularly pertinent in our environmentally-conscious age.
- Paperback 2009
- Traditions of the Bible
- James L. Kugel
- James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been universally praised. Here now is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. For this full-scale reference work Kugel has added a substantial treasury of sources and passages for each of the twenty-four Bible stories.
- Hardcover 1999