In what is both a radical approach to the Bible , and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyesthe eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the old yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.
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In what is both a radical approach to the Bible , and a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter reads the Old Testament with new eyesthe eyes of a literary critic. Alter takes the old yet simple step of reading the Bible as a literary creation.
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Alter does a very good job, by close-reading he shows that the Bible is superbly well-written, its authors use suspense and other techniques to achieve their literary aims, it is by no means primitive writing. Highly recommend to believers and atheists alike.
