- Bible, Narration in the Bible, Style Language, Textual Criticism
This book offers a literary approach to the biblical text. Robert Alter brings numerous textual examples of the different types of biblical narrative, e.g., dialogue, repetition, narration.
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- Author
- Robert Alter
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin, Basic Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780465004249
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**Wikipedia:** Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935)[1] is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.[2] He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018. **Biography** Robert Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his master's degree (1958) and doctorate (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature. He started his career as a writer at Commentary Magazine, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has written twenty-three books, and is noted most recently for his translations of sections of the Bible. He lectures on topics varying from
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