The Art of Biblical Poetry

by Robert Alter

Publisher:

Basic Books

, 2011

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In The Art of Biblical Poetry, his companion to the seminal The Art of Biblical Narrative, Alter takes his analysis beyond narrative craft to investigate the use of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. Updated with a new preface, myriad revisions, and passages from Alter's own critically acclaimed biblical translations, The Art of Biblical Poetry is an indispensable tool for understanding the Bible and its poetry.

Product Details

• Title: The Art of Biblical Poetry
• Author: Robert Alter
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780465028191, 9780465004317, 0465004318, 0465028195
• Resource ID: LLS:9780465028191
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-09T15:13:44Z

About Robert Alter

Robert Alter is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, and Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (Princeton). He lives in Berkeley, California.