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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Art of Biblical Narrative

by Robert Alter

A literary study of biblical storytelling, examining its use of dialogue, repetition, type-scenes and characterisation. Alter argues that the biblical narratives are sophisticated works of prose art. It opened a new literary approach to the Hebrew Bible.

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