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The Art of Biblical Narrative5887493.984.000.80
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary4386414.505.000.64
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel2301264.354.750.77
Genesis: Translation and Commentary3241263.854.001.08
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary2852254.404.500.68
The Art of Biblical Poetry2393184.004.000.73
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age143 143.713.750.99
The Literary Guide to the Bible3062113.683.501.23
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible33234.174.500.85
The World of Biblical Literature139 34.174.000.24
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary78224.504.500.50
Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre17124.004.00 
Hebrew and Modernity7 13.503.50 
Beyond King James.(modern English translations of the Hebrew Bible) : An article from: Commentary1 12.002.00 
Motives for Fiction6 14.004.00 
The Wisdom Books Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company1114.004.00 
After the tradition; essays on modern Jewish writing6 12.002.00 
Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis9     
Imagined Cities1     
Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion4     
Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)4     
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel19     
Fielding and the Nature of the Novel2     
Modern Hebrew Literature30     
The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism (Samuel and Athea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)7     
Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem16     
Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture171    
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal15     
Genesis Reading Group Guide: A New Translation and Commentary1     
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