How to Read the Bible Audiobook by James L. Kugel

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your choice for free. Title: How to Read the Bible Subtitle: A
Guide to Scripture, Then and Now Author: James L. Kugel Narrator:
Mel Foster Format: Unabridged Length: 36 hrs and 31 mins Language:
English Release date: 10-21-08 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Ratings:
4.5 of 5 out of 76 votes Genres: Religion & Spirituality,
Religious Thought Publisher's Summary: The story of Adam and Eve,
it turns out, was not originally about the "Fall of Man",l but
about the move from a primitive, hunter-gatherer society to a
settled, agricultural one. As for the stories of Cain and Abel,
Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Esau, these narratives were not,
at their origin, about individual people at all but, rather,
explanations of some feature of Israelite society as it existed
centuries after these figures were said to have lived. And whatever
the original Ten Commandments might have been, scholars are quite
sure they were different from the ones we have today. Such findings
pose a serious problem for adherents of traditional, Bible-based
faiths. Hiding from the discoveries of modern scholars seems
dishonest, but accepting them means undermining much of the Bible's
reliability and authority as the word of God. What to do? In his
search for a solution, Kugel leads the listener back to a group of
ancient biblical interpreters who flourished at the end of the
biblical period. Far from naïve, these interpreters consciously set
out to depart from the original meaning of the Bible''s various
stories, laws, and prophecies - and they, Kugel argues, hold the
key to solving the dilemma of reading the Bible today. How to Read
the Bible is, quite simply, the best, most original book about the
Bible in decades. Clear, often funny, but deeply serious in its
purpose, this is a book for Christians and Jews, believers and
secularists alike.