The Art of Biblical Poetry

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465028195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
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.

The Art of Biblical Narrative

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465025552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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.

The Art of Biblical Poetry

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
ISBN: 0465004318
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Analyzes the structure, functions, and metaphors of the poetry in Psalms, Job, Proverbs, and other books of the Old Testament

Reading Biblical Poetry

Author:
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664224394
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
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.

The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary

Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340538
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
Robert Alter's bold new translation of the "wisdom books" of the Old Testament.

Biblical Poetry and the Art of Close Reading

Author: J. Blake Couey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108698190
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
This volume explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Composed of essays by fifteen leading scholars of biblical poetry, it offers creative and insightful close readings of poems from across the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Psalms, wisdom poetry, Song of Songs, prophecy, and poetry in biblical narrative). The essays build on recent advances in our understanding of biblical poetry and engage a variety of theoretical perspectives and current trends in the study of literature. They demonstrate the rewards of careful attention to textual detail, and they provide models of the practice of close reading for students, scholars, and general readers. They also highlight the rich aesthetic value of the biblical poetic corpus and offer reflection on the nature of poetry itself as a meaningful and enduring form of art.

The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism

Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253207654
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
For years scholars of biblical poetry have defined parallelism as the simple correspondence of one verse, phrase, or word with another. In this book, Adele Berlin approaches biblical parallelism as a linguistic phenomenon, as a complex interplay among all aspects of language. Her goal is to get at the basics of what biblical parallelism is and how it works. Berlin's examination of the grammatical, lexical, semantic, phonetic, structural, and psychological aspects of parallelism yields an elegantly simple model that reveals the complex workings of this phenomenon. Her book will be a valuable guide for both scholars and students of biblical poetry.

Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative

Author: Adele Berlin
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9781575060026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
Poetics, the "science" of literature, makes us aware of how texts achieve their meaning. Poetics aids interpretation. If we know how texts mean, we are in a better position to discover what a particular text means. This is a book which offers fundamental guidelines for the sensitive reading and understanding of biblical stories. - Back cover.

The World Of Biblical Literature

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
A pioneer in the burgeoning movement to understand the Bible as literature assesses the spate of new developments in this area. Robert Alter reflects on the paradoxes inherent in considering this great religious work as literature.

The Literary Guide to the Bible

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674875319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 700

Book 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.