Art Of Biblical Narrative(ISBN=9780465004270)

　　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 eyesthe eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the old yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.

　　Robert Alter is professor of hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of, most recently, the highly praised biography of Stendhal, A Lion for Love (Basic Books, 1979).

A Literary Approach to the Bible
* Sacred History and the Beginnings of Prose Fiction
* Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention
* Between Narration and Dialogue
* The Techniques of Repetition
* Characterization and the Art of Reticence
* Composi