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Professor James L. Kugel's research on early interpreters of the Bible has proven to be quite lucrative...
...Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville notified Kugel, Starr professor of classical, modern Jewish and Hebrew literature, several weeks ago that he was the recipient of the 2001Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $200,000 prize...
...shocked mostly. It's a great honor, and I'm really pleased to have been selected," Kugel said...
...Kugel's book, The Bible As It Was, published by the Harvard University Press in 1997, attempts to present the Bible the way ancient interpreters perceived it from the late second century B.C. to the first century A.D, according to Kugel...
What is significant is that "their interpretations are still with us today...Jews and Christians are both heir to this common tradition of interpretation," Kugel said. There was a common mentality about how the Bible should be read and explained...