The literary guide to the Bible
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- Publication Date
- 1987
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- BS 511.2 L58 1987
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Publisher
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Publication Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 678 p. ; 26 x 17.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "Edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Whether we take the Bible to be a report of God's action in history, the founding text of a religion or religions, or a guide to ethics, we must first read it with the attention that great literature demands of its interpreters. The skills of the secular critic are for this reason fully relevant to the understanding of the Bible. This volume is the work of an international team of biblical and literary scholars ... No other book has treated the Bible in this way. The contributors do not engage in vague 'appreciations'; they use to the full the resources of modern literary criticism in the analysis of structures, themes, narrative techniques, poetic forms". -- front dust jacket blurb.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- General Introduction / Robert Alter and Frank Kermode -- The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- General Essays -- Glossary -- Index.
- Contents of The Old Testament section: Introduction / Robert Alter -- Genesis / J.P. Fokkelman -- Exodus / J.P. Fokkelman -- Leviticus / David Damrosch -- Numbers / James S. Ackerman -- Deuteronomy / Robert Polzin -- Joshua and Judges / David M. Gunn -- 1 and 2 Samuel / Joel Rosenberg --1 and 2 Kings / George Savran -- Isaiah / Luis Alonso Schokel -- Jeremiah and Ezekiel / Joel Rosenberg -- The Twelve Prophets / Herbert Marks -- Jonah / James S. Ackerman -- Psalms / Robert Alter -- Proverbs and Ecclesiastes / James G. Williams -- Job / Moshe Greenberg -- The Song of Songs / Francis Landy -- Ruth / Jack M. Sasson -- Lamentations / Francis Landy -- Esther / Jack M. Sasson -- Daniel / Shemaryahu Talmon -- Ezra and Nehemiah / / Shemaryahu Talmon -- 1 and 2 Chronicles / / Shemaryahu Talmon.
- Contents of The New Testament section: Introduction / Frank Kermode -- Matthew / Frank Kermode -- Mark / John Drury-- Luke / John Drury -- John / Frank Kermode -- Acts / James M. Robinson -- The Pauline Epistles / Michael Goulder -- The Epistle to the Hebrew and the Catholic Epistles / Gabriel Josipovici -- Revelation / Bernard McGinn.
- Contents of General Essays section: The Hebrew Bible and Canaanite Literature / Jonas C. Greenfield -- The New Testament and Greco-Roman Writing / Helen Elsom -- Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness / Edmund Leach -- The Canon / Frank Kermode -- The Characteristics of Ancient Hebrew Poetry / Robert Alter -- Midrash and Allegory / Gerald L. Bruns -- English Translations of the Bible / Gerald Hammond.
- Added Entry
- Alter, Robert (Robert Bernard), 1935-
- Kermode, Frank, 1919-2010
- Ackerman, James S.
- Bruns, Gerald L., 1938-
- Damrosch, David, 1953-
- Drury, John
- Elsom, Helen (Helen Elizabeth), 1957-2009
- Fokkelman, Jan P., 1940-
- Goulder, Michael
- Greenberg, Moshe, 1928-2010
- Greenfield, Jonas C. (Jonas Carl), 1926-1995
- Gunn, David M. (David Miller), 1942-
- Hammond, Gerald
- Josipovici, Gabriel (Gabriel David), 1940-
- Landy, Francis, 1947-
- Leach, Edmund (Edmund Ronald), 1910-1989
- Marks, Herbert
- McGinn, Bernard, 1937-
- Polzin, Robert, 1937-
- Robinson, James M. (James McConkey), 1924-2016
- Rosenberg, Joel
- Sasson, Jack M., 1941-
- Savran, George W.
- Schokel, Luis Alonso, 1920-1998
- Talmon, Shemaryahu, 1920-2010
- Williams, James G.
- ISBN
- 0-674-87530-3
- Call Number
- BS 511.2 L58 1987
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries