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"I know there are people who feel that modern Biblical scholarship and traditional approaches to the Bible can be reconciled--that there's a great coming together just over the horizon," Kugel says.
As an undergraduate, however, he studied not the Bible but modern poetry. Before coming to Harvard to earn his master's degree, Kugel embarked on a brief journalism career.
Though his interests were primarily literary at that point in his career, being exposed to modern approaches to the Bible at Yale had piqued Kugel's curiosity.
"I knew there were all these people out there--a lot of them didn't even know the Bible nearly as well as I did--who seemed to have this other knowledge...[about] how the texts had been composed," Kugel says.
But the professor says in almost 20 years of teaching "The Bible," he knows of no student dropping out because of problems with the readings.