February 26, 1999

Writing Long: Some Scholars Still Have a Lot to Say

By SCOTT HELLER

Pick up James L. Kugel's The Bible as It Was with one hand. Feel your wrist strain under the weight of the 680-page hardback. Now imagine Mr. Kugel telling you -- or his editors at Harvard University Press -- that the book just isn't long enough.

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