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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Waterloo and the Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">presented by
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. James L. Kugel</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">Walking in the Valley of the Shadow of Death:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold"">A Biblical Scholar's Journey with Cancer</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TEN YEARS AGO, Harvard professor James Kugel was diagnosed with an aggressive, likely fatal, form of cancer.
<span class="apple-style-span">Kugel will discuss his book </span><i>In the Valley of the Shadow,
</i>which is a wide-ranging exploration of different aspects of religion, interspersed with his personal reflections on the course of his own illness. Kugel seeks to uncover what he calls the starting point of religious consciousness, “an ancient sense of self”
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">James Kugel,
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">is the Starr Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and the best selling author of
<i>How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now</i> as well as a dozen other books and scores of research articles. He is also the Director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext">-Winner of the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for best book in Religion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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