Robert Alter - Literary Criticism + Hebrew Bible trans (26 books)

ROBERT ALTER (b. 1935) is a renowned American literary critic and translator who has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on contemporary American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature. He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding, Stendhal, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel.

Alter has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible. THE ART OF BIBLICAL NARRATIVE (1981) -- and its companion volume THE ART OF BIBLICAL POETRY (1985) -- radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Hebrew Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. Alter presents the Bible as a cohesive literary work, one whose many authors used innovative devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of human history: the revelation of a single god.

His critically acclaimed translations of the Hebrew Bible are the magnificent capstone to a lifetime of distinguished scholarly work. Now complete with the publication of the 3-volume HEBREW BIBLE (2019), Alter's translation and commentary reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, he renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. Alter clears away the inaccuracies, inelegance and muddiness of past translations and transmits in English the clarity and literary power of the Hebrew original. Featuring his illuminating and accessible commentary, these volumes should not be missed! In THE ART OF BIBLE TRANSLATION (2019), Alter offers a personal and passionate account of what he learned about the art of Bible translation over the two decades he spent completing his own English version of the Hebrew Bible.
This is an update of an earlier torrent. The following books are in PDF and/or ePUB format as indicated:
== LITERARY CRITICISM & BIOGRAPHY ==

* After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing (Dutton, 1969) -- PDF
* Art of Bible Translation, The (Princeton, 2019) -- PDF
* Art of Biblical Narrative, The (Basic Books, 2011). Revised & updated. -- ePUB
* Art of Biblical Poetry, The (Basic Books, 2011). Revised & updated. -- PDF + ePUB
* Defenses of the Imagination (Jewish Publication Society, 1977) -- PDF
* Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (Harvard, 1968) -- PDF
* Hebrew and Modernity (Indiana, 1994) -- PDF
* Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel (Yale, 2005) -- PDF
* Life of Learning, A: Wandering Among Fields (ACLS, 2013) -- PDF
* Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal (Basic Books, 1979) -- PDF
* Literary Guide to the Bible (Harvard, 1987). R. Alter and F. Kermode, eds. -- PDF
* Motives for Fiction (Harvard, 1984). -- PDF
* Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre (California, 1975) -- PDF
* Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (Princeton, 2010). -- PDF
* Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (Norton, 1990). -- PDF
* World of Biblical Literature, The (Basic Books, 1991). -- PDF
== HEBREW BIBLE TRANSLATIONS ==

* Ancient Israel: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings (Norton, 2013) -- ePUB
* Book of Psalms: Translation with Commentary (Norton, 2007) -- ePUB
* David Story, The: Translation with Commentary (Norton, 1999) -- PDF + ePUB
* Five Books of Moses: Translation with Commentary (Norton, 2004) -- ePUB
* Genesis: Translation and Commentary (Norton, 1996) -- PDF + ePUB
* Hebrew Bible: Translation with Commentary (Norton, 2019) -- ePUB
* Strong As Death Is Love: Translation with Commentary (Norton, 2015). -- ePUB
* The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes (Norton, 2010) -- ePUB

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