Word: kugel
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Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and of Comparative Literature James L. Kugel has felt the pinch...
...Kugel's recent work, The Bible As It Was, is in fact an abridged version of the manuscript he originally submitted...
After haggling over the length, Kugel and his editors at HUP compromised to publish two versions on the monograph rather than one. Traditions of the Bible, the complete 1,080-page titan, is billed by HUP as a full-scale reference book" and a "sourcebook for Biblical interpretation...
...Asked about how students react to learning that he is an Orthodox Jew, Kugel explained a theory he has developed...
...hate to say it, but I think there's probably some voyeuristic pleasure... [in] watching someone who does come from traditional religious beliefs dealing with modern Biblical scholarship and its rather unsettling conclusions for those beliefs," Kugel says...