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  • The Hebrew Bible

    A Translation with Commentary

    by Robert Alter ...
    A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original.A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the ... Read more

    $148.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary

    A Translation with Commentary

    by Robert Alter ...
    "A modern classic....Thrilling and constantly illuminating."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book WorldThrough a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. In this landmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive ... Read more

    $41.09 CAD

  • The Book of Psalms

    A Translation with Commentary

    by Robert Alter ...
    One of Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year and winner of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement.A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose translation of the Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by Seamus Heaney and a “masterpiece” ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Language of Fiction

    The Craft of Writing and the Pleasures of Reading

    by Robert Alter ...
    Elements of literary style are often hidden in plain sight. A foremost literary critic and translator reveals how novelists transformed language to create great fiction that is enjoyable to read—and reread.What distinguishes the prose of great novels? How have celebrated novelists from Henry Fielding and Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, and Louise Erdrich shaped and sometimes distorted ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

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  • The Invention of Dialogue in the Bible

    by Robert Alter ...
    Series series Biblical Literature
    The Invention of Dialogue in the Bible is an examination of the Bible's use of dialogue, a feature of literary writing often seen in prose, drama, and verse. Perhaps best known for its use in novels, it reflects characters' temperaments, social and educational backgrounds, their psychology, and their relationships with their interlocutors—and its use is rarely acknowledged within the narratives of ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

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  • Amos Oz

    Writer, Activist, Icon

    by Robert Alter ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activistAmos Oz (1939–2018) was one of Israel’s most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the author of dozens of novels, essay collections, and novellas written between 1965 and shortly before his death.In this first published ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

    A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

    by Robert Alter ...
    "A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Art of Biblical Narrative

    by Robert Alter ...
    In this radical approach to the Bible, an acclaimed Hebrew scholar and translator looks at the Old Testament with a fresh perspective.With a fundamental return to its narrative prose, Robert Alter translates this section of the Bible through the eyes of a literary critic. He considers the Bible as literary text, guiding readers to approach scripture in a profoundly thoughtful way, proving himself ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Art of Biblical Poetry

    by Robert Alter ...
    From a renowned literary scholar, the definitive guide to the poetry of the Hebrew Bible"Intelligent, precise and exciting" (Peter Levi, The New York Times Book Review)Renowned literary expert Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible has electrified readers worldwide. In his classic The Art of Biblical Poetry, Alter radically expands the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imagined Cities

    Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel

    by Robert Alter ...
    In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent-a metropolis defying traditional ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Art of Bible Translation

    by Robert Alter ...
    From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "hugely entertaining and irreverent" (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into EnglishIn this brief book, award-winning biblical translator and acclaimed literary critic Robert Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Ancient Israel

    The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary

    by Robert Alter ...
    Robert Alter’s award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible continues with the stirring narrative of Israel’s ancient history.To read the books of the Former Prophets in this riveting Robert Alter translation is to discover an entertaining amalgam of hair-raising action and high literary achievement. Samson, the vigilante superhero of Judges, slaughters thousands of Philistines with the jawbone ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD