num_pages: 207
description: In what is both a radical approach to the Bible, and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyes—the eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the old yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.
language: English
title: The Art of Biblical Narrative
titlecomplete: The Art of Biblical Narrative
genres: Literary Criticism, Judaism, Old Testament, Faith, Judaica, Christianity, Religion, Theology, Nonfiction, Christian
ratings_count: 1486
publisher: Basic Books