The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter

Since it was first published nearly three decades ago, The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter presents the Hebrew Bible as a cohesive literary work, one whose many authors used innovative devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of human history: the revelation of a single god.

Robert Alter is a Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime contributions to American letters, he lives in Berkeley, California.

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ISBN 13	9780465022557
ISBN 10	0465022553
Title	The Art of Biblical Narrative
Author	Robert Alter
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Basic Books
Year published	2011-04-26
Number of pages	272
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