Download or read book The Bible As It Was written by James L. Kugel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading us chapter by chapter through the Hebrew Bible’s most important stories—from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land—Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.