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| 1. |  | The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary from W. W. Norton Price: $23.10 Customer Review:  I read this over the course of almost a year, one psalm a night just before bed. I found it illuminating and inspiring. Much has already been written about how Alter's translation of the Hebrew word "nefesh" or "nafesh" as "life's force" instead of the traditional "soul" changes the whole... |
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| 2. |  | Genesis: Translation and Commentary from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $10.85 Customer Review: For so long I naively believed in the theory of evolution. But then I discovered this book and realised I was completely mistaken - the world was actually created by God in six days! Quite remarkable. I won't make the mistake of putting blind faith in tatty old folk tales written by senile old... |
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| 3. |  | The Art Of Biblical Narrative from Basic Books Price: $14.85 Customer Review: Simply the best reading I have done in months. The first chapter is worth paying for the entire book. Robert Alter just did it again. |
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| 4. |  | The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $26.37 Customer Review: Alter, Robert. "The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary", W.W, Norton, 2004. A Beautiful Edition Amos Lassen I am always on the lookout for new editions and new commentaries of "The Five Books of Moses". The beauty of the books is that they can be read and reread and... |
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| 5. |  | The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $11.53 Customer Review:  I really like how he looked at four different texts/translations and decided which one he thought fit best in each context while at the same time footnoting whatever the Masoretic text said, whether he chose it or not. I would have liked it better if there had been parallel Hebrew and English texts,... |
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| 6. |  | The Art Of Biblical Poetry from Basic Books Price: $15.75 Customer Review: Alter continues here what he started in ' The Art of Biblical Narrative' and applies the techniques of literary criticism to the Biblical text. He does not discard Lowth's discovery of parallelism as the key technique of Biblical poetry but rather sharpens and intensifies the meaning of this... |
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| 7. |  | It's (Mostly) His Fault: For Women Who Are Fed Up and the Men Who Love Them from Grand Central Publishing Price: $28.80 Customer Review:  I admit, as a husband, I am not perfect; I have my flaws. My wife recently came across this book and now it has become her relationship bible. Problem is she has her flaws too (no one is perfect). This book directs all the blame at the guy and tells the women their husband is wrong-always wrong. |
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| 8. |  | The Song of Songs: The World's First Great Love Poem (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $10.88 Customer Review: You want to be scholarly and sexy all at once? Looking for the perfect book for an important anniversary or a gift for that intellectual you have your eye on? Look no further. The very first verse sets the tone: "Kiss me, make me drunk with your kisses! Your sweet loving ... |
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| 9. |  | The Literary Guide to the Bible from Belknap Press Price: $25.00 Customer Review: It's a major task "analysing" a book with so many variations and long historical scope. Limiting the parameters to "literary" aspects is hardly a pruning - even when historical elements are essentially stripped away. Alter and Kermode saved themselves some of the labour by farming out much of the... |
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| 10. |  | How Long Till My Soul Gets It Right?: 100 Doorways on the Journey to Happiness from HarperOne Customer Review: I came across this book in my local library doing some research. During an especially trying time in my life, Dr. Alter's kind words and writing style saved me. After checking it out, and renewing it 4 times, I decided it was time to buy my own copy. I have suggested it to all my instructors and... |
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| 11. |  | Modern Hebrew Literature from Behrman House Publishing Price: $22.50 Customer Review: Alter is a superb critic with a deep knowledge of Hebrew literature down the generations. This is a relatively early effort but nonetheless contains much insightful writing. |
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| 12. |  | Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel from Yale University Press Price: $29.00 | |
| 13. | [no image] | The no-nibbling book: One hundred & twenty eight things to remember or do at the refrigerator door so you won't open it from Putnam | |
| 14. |  | Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $18.21 Customer Review:  The authors' thesis is that we (USA) should not be out-sourcing to the private sector critical military functions, primarily logistical. Some of the trigger-pulling has also been outsourced (e.g., Blackwater). I agree wholeheartedly with the authors' political position. But the major point is... |
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| 15. | [no image] | The Window: New and Selected Poems from Sheep Meadow Price: $10.95 Customer Review: Poorly translated. Doesn't match poetic intent nor tempo. Translation is a bit of an word for word english repetition of text rather than concentrating on the poetry. After all it is poetry that is being translated. Without knowledge of the Hebrew, poems appear very bland and soul-less. |
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| 16. |  | Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $17.96 Customer Review: There has been a series of theoretical "culture wars" in the academy in the past quarter century, and these have taken their toll on the actual practice of reading literature qua literature, and not merely as the expression of some oppressive ideology, or simply the deplorable detritus left behind... |
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| 17. |  | Legend from Leisure Books Price: $6.99 Customer Review: Legend is a wonderfully enjoyable story that will give you tears from every possible mood you can be in. Why it is listed in Amazon with Loren D. Estleman's name first is beyond me, he did not put this book together. I think it was Robert J. Randisi. At any rate, in my opinion all of the authors put... |
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| 18. |  | A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal from Harvard University Press Price: $23.95 | |
| 19. |  | Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture from Yale University Press Price: $22.00 Customer Review: Alter opens his book this way,"Over the last quarter of a century ,the term canon,which previously had been restricted to the body of Sacred Scripture approved by ecclesiastical authority, attained general currency in academic circles as designation for the corpus of secular literary works implicity... |
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| 20. | [no image] | The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism (Samuel and Athea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) from Univ of Washington Pr | |
| 21. | [no image] | Carny Kill from Vintage Customer Review: A wonderful dip into the world of classic pulp noir. The hero is, of course, a wise-cracking, smart guy who strays into trouble not of his own making that involves a traveling carnival, a sexy woman, an ex-wife and murder. And crocodiles. And a midget. Tarzan's tree house. Rubes and Carnies. Cops... |
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| 22. |  | Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon (Berkeley Tanner Lectures) from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $16.95 | |
| 23. | [no image] | Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre from University of California Press | |
| 24. | [no image] | The World of Biblical Literature from Basic Books Customer Review: There are few voices in the arena of biblical studies who command the respect due Robert Alter. After a long career in biblical scholarship, he recently issued a new translation of the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim. This little book is, in several ways, a precursor to that momentous effort. Viewing... |
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| 25. |  | Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem from Harvard University Press Customer Review: Alter is one of the most distinguished of all modern literary critics. Perhaps he is best known for his pioneering literary studies on the Bible. But he has written on diverse subjects from American- Jewish Literature to Fielding and the Comic Novel. Here he examines the relations of three giants of... |
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| 26. | [no image] | Rogue's Progress:Studies in the Picaresque Novel from Harvard Univ Press | |
| 27. | [no image] | Path to Savagery from Avon Books | |
| 28. | [no image] | A Lion For Love - A Critical Biography Of Stendhal from Basic Books, Inc | |
| 29. | [no image] | AFTER THE TRADITION: ESSAYS ON MODERN JEWISH WRITING from Dutton | |
| 30. | [no image] | The Five Books of Moses from Norton | |
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