Sentences with phrase «james kugel»

Diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable case of cancer in the summer of 2000, James Kugel, a preeminent biblical scholar, suddenly found himself confronting ultimate questions» not dispassionately, as he was trained to do, but in the most visceral sense.

After finishing James Kugel's book How to Read the Bible, I read R.R. Reno's comment on it with interest and pleasure («The Bible Inside and Out,» April).

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

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In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief by James l. Kugel Free Press, 256 pages, $ 26

Joining Peter at STATE is Seth Kugel from The New York Times; James Martin, Editor at Large for America Magazine, and Roger Dow, from United States Travel Association.