The art of biblical narrative
In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyes—the eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the…
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- 0-465-00427-X
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- xii,195p.; 20 cm.
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- 221.44 ALT a
The pleasures of reading in an ideological age
From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the “sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a close, informed engagement with it” (New York…
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- 0-393-31499-5
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- 250p.; 22 cm.
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- 028.9 ALT p
Strong as death is love: the Song of Song, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, Daniel
The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakes…
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- 978-0-393-35225-2
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- 234p.; 21 cm.
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- 223.9 ALT s
The literary guide to the Bible
In a literary critique of the Bible, an international and interdenominational team of biblical and literary scholars analyze the structures, themes, narrative techniques, and poetic forms of the Ol…
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- 0-674-87530-3
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- 673p.; 26 cm.
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- 809.935 ALT l
Genesis: translation and commentary
Here is Genesis in all its power and presence, thanks to the author's masterly translation, which reconciles the ancient and the modern in remarkable ways. For the author offers us an English prose…
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- 0-393-03981-1
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- xlviii,324p.; 22 cm.
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- R 222.11 ALT g
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