Updating Basket....

Sign In
0 Items

BASKET SUMMARY

There are currently no items added to the basket
Sign In
0 Items

BASKET SUMMARY

There are currently no items added to the basket

David Story

A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

David Story

A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

This item is currently unavailable.

Enter your email address below and we will email you when the item comes into stock.

Paperback / softback

£15.99

Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393320770
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 11/10/2000
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.

Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley)

Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, the magnificent capstone to a lifetime of distinguished scholarly work, has won the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. His immense achievements in scholarship ranging from the eighteenth-century European novel to contemporary Hebrew and American literature earned Alter the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

"The most compelling version of [the David] story since the King James Bible." -- Robert Fagles

Friends Scheme

Our online book club offers discounts on hundreds of titles...