The Art Of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
A Literary Study of the Hebrew Bible
A pioneering, close-reading study that treats the Hebrew Bible as sophisticated literature, showing how its distinctive narrative techniques—economical prose, strategic repetition, understatement, dialogue, focalization, irony and subtle shifts of voice—shape character, moral ambiguity and the reader’s response; by analyzing representative stories and attending to features of the original Hebrew (syntax, wordplay and rhetorical patterning), it demonstrates that the Bible’s power lies as much in its artistry and narrative craft as in its religious or historical content.
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- 1981
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- 256 pages
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- English
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