The Bible As It WasThis 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. |
Contents
The World of Ancient Biblical Interpreters | 1 |
The Creation of the World | 53 |
Adam and | 67 |
Death in a Day The Punishment Was Mortality | 75 |
Cain and Abel | 85 |
Noah and the Flood | 97 |
The Heavenly Scribe Enoch the Sage | 107 |
Noah Warned of the Flood | 114 |
Which Ten Commandments? No Talk of Weekday Matters | 388 |
Moses Was Given More than the Torah | 402 |
Other Nations Knew Anyway Other Nations at Fault | 412 |
Worship in the Wilderness | 439 |
Trouble along the | 461 |
Moses Accused of Favoritism | 471 |
The Bronze Serpent Balaam and Phinehas | 477 |
The Star Will Precede the Scepter Balaam Counseled Seduction | 496 |
The Tower of Babel | 121 |
Abraham Journeys from Chaldea | 131 |
Lot and Lots Wife | 179 |
Jacob and Esau | 197 |
Jacob and the Angel | 215 |
Dinah | 231 |
Josephs Ups and Downs | 245 |
Jacobs Sons in Egypt | 263 |
Growing Up in Pharaohs Court | 285 |
The Exodus from Egypt | 309 |
The Red | 331 |
Into the Wilderness | 363 |
At Mt Sinai | 371 |