David Damrosch

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1. David Damrosch

   Author of The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries (2nd Edition), The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period, The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A: The Middle Ages (2nd Edition)

2. Robert Alter

   Author of The Art of Biblical Narrative, Genesis: Translation and Commentary, The Literary Guide to the Bible

3. M. H. Abrams

   Author of A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1A, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1C

4. Stephen Greenblatt

   Author of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume E: The Victorian Age, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth Century and After

5. Northrop Frye

   Author of Anatomy of Criticism, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

6. James Kugel

   Author of The Bible As It Was, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

7. Nina Baym

   Author of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume E: Literature Since 1945, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume D: Between the Wars 1914-1945, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Volume A: Literature to 1820

8. Robin Lane Fox

   Author of Pagans and Christians, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

9. Elaine Pagels

   Author of The Gnostic Gospels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

10. John Dominic Crossan

    Author of The Historical Jesus, Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus

11. Franco Moretti

    Author of Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900, Signs Taken For Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms

12. Nicholas A. Basbanes

    Author of Patience & Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

13. Gerhard von Rad

    Author of Genesis: A Commentary (Old Testament Library)

14. Lawrence Goldstone

    Author of Out of the Flames, The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

15. John Milton

    Author of Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition), Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained, The Portable Milton

16. Gabriel Josipovici

    Author of The Book of God: A Response to the Bible

17. Mary Shelley

    Author of Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), Frankenstein (Longman Cultural Editions)

18. Bruce M. Metzger

    Author of Oxford Bible Companion

19. Harold Bloom

    Author of The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation

20. Stephen Mitchell

    Author of The Book of Job