''The Art of Biblical Narrative'' is a 1981 book by
Robert Alter
Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935) is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018.
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in which he outlines a literary approach to the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. Hebrew: ''Tān ...
. He proposes that "the Bible in its final form constitutes an artistic document with a full texture of interconnected unity."
''The Art of Biblical Narrative'' has been very influential: it "revolutionized the way that scholars read the Bible." Steven P. Weitzman suggests that "By the most conventional measures—number of books sold, favorable reviews, frequency of citation—it is hard to imagine a more successful academic book than Alter's ''The Art of Biblical Narrative''."
''The Art of Biblical Narrative'' won the 1982