Background
Kugel, James Lewis was born on August 22, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of John Hans and Adelaide (Roth) Kugel.
( Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or met...)
Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical "poetry" is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is merely an approximation of the reality of biblical style. Arguing that the Bible presents a continuum of speech heightened in varying degrees by different means, Kugel sets out to describe Hebrew's high style on its own terms. He also offers a thorough history of the idea of biblical poetry, starting with Philo of Alexandria and Josephus in the first century C.E. and charting its development through the Church Fathers, medieval Jewish writers, the Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance, and on into modern times. The story of how each age understood the nature biblical poetry, Kugel concludes, is a key to understanding the Bible's place in the history of Western thought.
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Kugel, James Lewis was born on August 22, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of John Hans and Adelaide (Roth) Kugel.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1968. Junior fellow, Harvard University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, City University of New York, 1977.
Mellon faculty fellow, CUNY, 1977-1978; lecturer, Harvard University, 1978-1979; Starr professor Hebrew literature, Harvard University, since 1982; assistant professor, Yale University, 1979-1981; associate professor, Yale University, 1982; professor, Yale University, 1982; member Griswold Humanities Center, Yale University, 1980-1982.
( Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or met...)
Member Association Jewish Studies, Society Biblical Literature, American Academy Religion, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Rachel Epstein, April 20, 1975. Children: Yotam, David.