THE INSTRUCTOR
James L. Kugel is currently a Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is retired from Harvard University where he was the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies.
Dr. Kugel was educated at Yale and Harvard Universities and earned his Ph.D at City University of New York. He has taught Hebrew Bible, the history of biblical exegesis, and literary biblical criticism at City University, Harvard University, and Yale University.
Many of Dr Kugel’s publications have earned prestigious awards. The Idea of Biblical Poetry was supported by awards from the F. Hilles and A. W. Griswold Funds, and received the book prize of the American Jewish Committee (1982). Research for In Potiphar's House was sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89).
The Bible As It Was, on which our current onine course is based, was supported by awards from the Alan M. Stroock Publication Fund for Jewish Studies and a grant from the Littauer Foundation. It won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion in 2000 and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle award.
Dr. Kugel is co-founder and associate editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.
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Other books by James Kugel:
The
God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible
The
Bible As It Was
On
Being a Jew
Great
Poems of the Bible: A Reader's Companion with New Translations
Idea
of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism and Its History
In
Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts