The Art of Biblical Narrative

Type

Book

Authors

Robert Alter

ISBN 10

0465022553

ISBN 13

9780465022557

Tags

Old Testament, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies

Description

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. - from Amzon

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