How to Read the Bible
by James L Kugel
Even in this secular age, the Bible is a pillar of the Western imagination. Everybody has a stake both in Jerusalem and in the book that really defined it, which was the Bible. What Kugel does is read the Bible with a view to understanding it historically.
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