The Literary Guide to the Bible by Robert Alter (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Literary Guide to the Bible by Robert Alter, Frank Kermode An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years. Author Biography Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, including the prize-winning The Art of Biblical Narrative. Sir (John) Frank Kermode was Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University and a Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge. He was instrumental in the 1979 founding of the London Review of Books and was knighted in 1991 for his service to literature. Table of Contents General Introduction Robert Alter and Frank Kermode The Old Testament Introduction Robert Alter Genesis J. P. Fokkelman Exodus J. P. Fokkelman Leviticus David Damrosch Numbers James S. Ackerman Deuteronomy Robert Polzin Joshua and Judges David M. Gunn 1 and 2 Samuel Joel Rosenberg 1 and 2 Kings George Savran Isaiah Luis Alonso Schokel Jeremiah and Ezekiel Joel Rosenberg The Twelve Prophets Herbert Marks Jonah James S. Ackerman Psalms Robert Alter Proverbs and Ecclesiastes James G. Williams Job Moshe Greenberg The Song of Songs Francis Landy Ruth Jack M. Sasson Lamentations Francis Landy Esther Jack M. Sasson Daniel Shemaryahu Talmon Ezra and Nehemiah Shemaryahu Talmon 1 and 2 Chronicles Shemaryahu Talmon The New Testament Introduction Frank Kermode Matthew Frank Kermode Mark John Drury Luke John Drury John Frank Kermode Acts James M. Robinson The Pauline Epistles Michael Goulder The Epistle to the Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles Gabriel Josipovici Revelation Bernard McGinn General Essays The Hebrew Bible and Canaanite Literature Jonas C. Greenfield The New Testament and Greco-Roman Writing Helen Elsom Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness Edmund Leach The Canon Frank Kermode The Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry Robert Alter Midrash and Allegory Gerald L. Bruns English Translations of the Bible Gerald Hammond Glossary Index Review Professor Alter is one of our foremost lay readers and expositors of the poetic and narrative genius of the Bible. He brings to his commentaries a knowledge of Hebrew and of Judaism together with an exceptionally wide literary awareness and authority of judgment. Professor Kermode has long been eminent among teachers and critics of English and European literatures from the Renaissance to Romanticism and the moderns… [The volume] contains much that is enlightening, convincing and finely argued. -- George Steiner * New Yorker *Robert Alter and Frank Kermode are literary critics of wide experience and formidable learning, and each has made considerable contributions to what they call the literary study of the Bible… I do not hesitate in awarding them the palm as the best guides we have so far in English. -- Harold Bloom * New York Review of Books *Robert Alter, an outstanding biblical scholar, and Frank Kermode, one of the most notable of the literary scholars, have edited a virtual encyclopedia of literary approaches to the Bible. Readers looking for an overview of the literary turn in biblical studies could do no better than read the general introduction to The Literary Guide to the Bible (a fine, compact presentation by the editor of the books justifications and goals)… The editors stated purpose is to help individuals attune themselves to the Bible in an age when literate people no longer have a daily intimacy with it on the basis of shared belief… Even though the task set for this book is enormous and enormously important, it is accomplished well, if not quite flawlessly… The publication of The Literary Guide to the Bible, however, marks an important moment in the history of Bible studies… This book invites the general reader, religious or not, to join in that discussion, to experience how new questions are opening up understandings of an old book. -- Elizabeth Struthers Malbon * New York Times Book Review *Frank Kermode and Robert Alter, two critics who have given a new rigour and seriousness to the Bible as literature movement, have brought together a constellation of literary and Biblical specialists, from both sides of the Atlantic, to explain the Bible from a literary standpoint… It is hard to see how the task could be performed better. At its best, the Guide does not merely introduce lines of interpretation unfamiliar to the nonspecialist, it also breaks new ground. -- John Barton * London Review of Books *This volume is a needed contribution to our appreciation of the Bible as a powerful work of literature and will quickly find its place on the shelves of those who respond to its ambitious themes. If this book does nothing else but restore the scriptures to their rightful place in our cultural consciousness, it will justify the honors that, on so many other grounds, it richly deserves. -- Eugene Kennedy * Chicago Tribune *One of the virtues of this book is that it sends one back to the reading of the Bible with clear eyes and critical instincts alert. -- Anthony Burgess * The Observer *A monumental literary account of Scripture that is both comprehensive and accessible. -- Joseph Lowin * Hadassah Magazine *An immensely valuable compilation of the best of recent literary scholarship into the Bible. -- Haim Chertok * Jerusalem Post Magazine *Extraordinary… These essayists offer a cascade of new insights… [This] is a superb guide. -- Harry Goldgar * Hudson Review *More than two dozen scholars in the United States (11), Great Britain (7), Israel (4), Canada (2), and continental Europe (2) contributed to this volume, representing a variety of academic disciplines such as English, comparative literature, and religion, under the direction of Robert Alter (Old Testament) and Frank Kermode (New Testament)… Far from being a reactionary return to the old ways of thinking, The Literary Guide to the Bible stands as a radical challenge to the scholarly establishment that has for so long dominated biblical studies… [The book] is…a distinct success in what it seeks to accomplish… Looking back over the experience of reading this remarkable volume of essays, I am inclined to recommend it highly—not so much for beginners, but rather for students acquainted with modern biblical exegesis who need another perspective. For readers frustrated by the disintegrative effect of modern commentaries it is a balm for the soul. -- David C. Fowler * Modern Language Quarterly * Review Quote This volume is a needed contribution to our appreciation of the Bible as a powerful work of literature and will quickly find its place on the shelves of those who respond to its ambitious themes. If this book does nothing else but restore the scriptures to their rightful place in our cultural consciousness, it will justify the honors that, on so many other grounds, it richly deserves. Details ISBN0674875311 Short Title LIT GT THE BIBLE P Language English ISBN-10 0674875311 ISBN-13 9780674875319 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1990 Country of Publication United States Edited by Robert Alter Birth 1919 Imprint The Belknap Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Author Frank Kermode Pages 696 DOI 10.1604/9780674875319 AU Release Date 1990-09-01 NZ Release Date 1990-09-01 US Release Date 1990-09-01 UK Release Date 1990-09-01 Illustrations None Publisher Harvard University Press Publication Date 1990-09-01 DEWEY 809.93522 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8313048;

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