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.

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

Other HUP Books 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

Other HUP Books 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