The Literary Guide to the Bible

Edited by Robert Alter

Edited by Frank Kermode

    General Introduction
    Robert Alter and Frank Kermode

    The Old Testament

    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 Schökel

    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

    The New Testament

    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 Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles
    Gabriel Josipovici

    Revelation
    Bernard McGinn

    General Essays

    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

    Glossary

    Index

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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.