How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now.(Book review) From: Reviewer's Bookwatch | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Reiss, Fred | COPYRIGHT 2008 Midwest Book Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

James L. Kugel

Free Press

New York

9780743235860 $35.00

The Bible is the holiest of books for 2.1 billion Christians and 14 million Jews. More than 1.5 billion Muslims deem the holy Koran to be a continuation of the Old and New Testaments. Jewish tradition says that Moses, at God's direction, wrote the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses, no later than about 1400 B.C.E...

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