| Author | : J. Blake Couey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2018-08-30 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 1107156203 |
Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780664224394 |
A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative provides a holistic introduction to biblical poetry, offering literary examples of how the poets of the bible created their works. Original.
| Author | : Robert Alter |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2011-09-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0465028195 |
Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispensable tool for understanding the Bible and its poetry.
| Author | : Robert Alter |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2011-04-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0465025552 |
From celebrated translator of the Hebrew Bible Robert Alter, the "groundbreaking" (Los Angeles Times) book that explores the Bible as literature, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter's The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible's many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2011-09-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0393340538 |
Robert Alter's bold new translation of the "wisdom books" of the Old Testament.
| Author | : F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 620 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199766908 |
On Biblical Poetry considers the characteristics of biblical Hebrew Poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, careful attention to prosody, and close reading.
| Author | : Robert Alter |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 700 |
| Release | : 1990-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780674875319 |
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 | : J. Blake Couey |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Bibles |
| ISBN | : 0198743556 |
This book shows that Isaiah 1-39 contains one of the most remarkable and provocative poetic voices in the Hebrew Bible, and that attention to its poetic style makes a significant difference to the interpretation of the text.
| Author | : Jeanie C. Crain |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2010-08-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0745635083 |
This book provides the ideal entry-point to the process of reading, understanding, and assessing what many recognize to be the important and powerful literature of the Bible. The book introduces the tools of literary analysis, including: language and style, the formal structures of genre, character study, and thematic analysis.
