Kugel, James L.

James L. Kugel is Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University, and a regular visiting Professor of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of a number of books of biblical scholarship, including "How to Read the Bible "(2007), for which he won the National Jewish Book Award for best book", " "The Great Poems of the Bible "(1999), and "The Bible As It Was "(1997).In 2001, Kugel was awarded the prestigious Grawemeyer Prize in Religion. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.