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The Literary Guide to the Bible

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$40.00 • £34.95 • €36.95

ISBN 9780674875319

Publication Date: 09/01/1990

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696 pages

6-1/2 x 10 inches

Belknap Press

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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, including the prize-winning The Art of Biblical Narrative.

Sir (John) Frank Kermode was Julian Clarence Levi Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University and a Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge. He was instrumental in the 1979 founding of the London Review of Books and was knighted in 1991 for his service to literature.

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