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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Religion - Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
Retail Price: $17.99
Ages: 14 - UP Pages: 272
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.