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On Being a Jew brings The Book of the Kuzari up to date. In a conversational format, it answers basic questions about the purposes of ritual, the duties of study, work, and home life, the importance of prayer and history, and the subtleties of the Torah and its interpretations that are obscured or lost in translation.
Author: James L. Kugel
ISBN-10: 0801859433
ISBN-13: 9780801859434
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/19/1998
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.43w x 0.46d
James Kugel is the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of Poetry and Prophecy, Early Biblical Interpretation and The Idea of Biblical Poetry, the last available from Johns Hopkins. His The Bible as It Was, an introduction to the Torah's ancient interpreters, was published in 1997.
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