How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now - James L. Kugel
Category: Spiritual & Religious
Narrator: Mel Foster
Tags: Spiritual & Religious, History
In How to Read the Bible, Harvard professor James Kugel leads the listener chapter by chapter through the quiet revolution of recent biblical scholarship, showing time and again how radically the interpretations of todays researchers differ from what people have always thought., The story of Adam and Eve, it turns out, was not originally about the Fall of Man,l but about the move from a primitive, hunter-gatherer society to a settled, agricultural one., As for the stories of Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Esau, these narratives were not, at their origin, about individual people at all but, rather, explanations of some feature of Israelite society as it existed centuries after these figures were said to have lived. And whatever the original Ten Commandments might have been, scholars are quite sure they were different from the ones we have today., Such findings pose a serious problem for adherents of traditional, Bible-based faiths. Hiding from the discoveries of modern
