Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kugel says he has a "hunch," however, that scholars' efforts to resolve the conflicts between modern and ancient views will lead to increased appreciation for "the whole world of these ancient interpreters...
...Finally, I think, modern scholarship is going to have to, grudgingly, give to these ancient interpreters the credit that they deserve," Kugel says...
Kugel, who grew up in New York City and attended Yale University, says he first encountered modern Biblical scholarship in college...
...undergraduate, however, he studied not the Bible but modern poetry. Before coming to Harvard to earn his master's degree, Kugel embarked on a brief journalism career...
Though his interests were primarily literary at that point in his career, being exposed to modern approaches to the Bible at Yale had piqued Kugel's curiosity...