James L. Kugel

James L. Kugel (b.1945) is an American Israeli scholar.

Biography

James L. Kugel was born in New York, NY in 1945.

From 1982 to 2003, he was Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University. He retired from Harvard to become Director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, where he has also served as chairman of the Department of Bible.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Early Biblical interpretation (1986 Kugel), book

• The Bible as It Was (1997 Kugel), book

• Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as it Was at the Start of the Common Era (1998 Kugel), book

• The Ladder of Jacob: Ancient Interpretations of the Biblical Story of Jacob and His Children (2006 Kugel), book

External links

• Wikipedia