ALSO BY ROBERT ALTER

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