Lecture on Biblical Interpretation - James Kugel

In this lecture (which will serve as the first in a series of four), James Kugel, a Jewish scholar of the Bible and the early history of Judaism, lays out what we know about the earliest interpretations of the Hebrew Bible, and discusses how those early interpreters have influenced readers of the Bible down to the present day. Though this is not actually from the series of lectures delivered at the Pardes Institute, it has roughly the same information as the first lecture in that series, which was recorded with a bad microphone and is somewhat painful to listen to.