Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
How to Read the Bible
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now | James L. Kugel
4 posts | 1 read | 2 to read
A reader's companion to the Bible draws on classic interpretations as well as modern scholarship to explain how the Bible may also be a metaphorical reflection of anthropological history.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
the_hibernator
post image

Second hour #readathon reading!

blurb
the_hibernator
post image

In chapter 11, Kugel presents some interesting arguments that the Dinah story (Joseph of the technicolored dreamcoat's sister) was a later addition to the Jacob/Joseph story. Interesting! #bible

18 likes1 stack add
blurb
the_hibernator
post image



Analyzing the Bible in a literary sense, I am reminded of Marvel's representation of Thor and Loki. Loki is clever and cunning, his brother Thor is is a "dumb jock." What does this motif mean to us that it is recurring? Is there really such a thing as a dumb jock? There must be for the stereotype to be so pervasive-but all the jocks I knew in high school were also on the honor roll. #bible

blurb
the_hibernator
post image

I'm reading (and loving!) a #textonlycovers book right now. Does that count for a #booktober challenge?