The Literary Guide to the Bible

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Edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode

Harvard University Press

Due/Published September 1990, 665 pages, paper

ISBN 0674875311

This volume aims "to provide a survey of the literary dimensions of the Bible. General essays precede separate articles on the books of the Old andNew Testaments, and there are also . . . essays on larger topics pertaining to the literary study of the Bible. A listing of some of the contributors and their contributions {includes}: . . . Luis Alonso Schokel on Isaiah, Alter on the Psalms, Moshe Greenberg on Job, Shemaryahu Talmon on Daniel, Kermode on Matthew and John, James M. Robinson on Acts, Jonas Greenfield on the Hebrew Bible and Canaanite literature and Edmund Leach on fishing for men on the edge of the wilderness." (America) Chapter bibliographies. Index.