Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel: A Translation with Commentary
Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Genesis: Translation and Commentary
Hebrew and Modernity
The World of Biblical Literature
Necessary Angels:
Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
The Literary Guide to the Bible
(coeditor with Frank Kermode)
The Invention of Hebrew Prose:
Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism
The Art of Biblical Poetry
Motives for Fiction
The Art of Biblical Narrative
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre
Modern Hebrew Literature
After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing
Fielding and the Nature of the Novel
Rogue’s Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel