Meir Sternberg's classic study enriches our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and gives us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative shows that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics.
"…an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work. …[shows] more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work―a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics."
Adele Berlin, Prooftexts
"[Sternberg] has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of Biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts."
