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James L. Kugel
Biblical scholar James Kugel will be familiar to careful readers who
checked the footnotes of Elder Jefferey R. Holland’s October 2007
general conference talk, “The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He
Hath Sent.”.”1
In describing the nature of God, Elder Holland cited Kugel, an orthodox
Jew—who presumably has nothing to gain by supporting Latter-day Saint
doctrines—in contending that the earliest writers of Genesis understood
God to have a body like a person and that he interacted with the
patriarchs literally face to face. In The God of Old,
Kugel claims that later interpretive modes still dominating Jewish and
Christian thought today—the beginnings of which modes can be seen in
the Bible itself—were used to render these straightforward descriptions
as figurative..”2 . . .
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