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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.
The Art of Biblical Narrative
by Robert Alter
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(Second Edition)
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ISBN-13:
9780465025558
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication date: 04/26/2011
- Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 272
- Sales rank: 253,243
- File size: 337 KB
- Age Range: 13 - 18 Years
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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.
