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.

Robert Alter is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous critical works, the most recent of which is the prize-winning book The Art of Biblical Narrative.

Frank Kermode is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Columbia University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Read More by Robert Alter:

• A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
• Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
• Motives for Fiction

Read More by Frank Kermode:

• The Art of Telling: Essays on Fiction
• The Classic: Literary Images of Permanence and Change
• The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative
• An Appetite for Poetry
• The Uses of Error