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10 best books like The Literary Guide to the Bible (Robert Alter): On Poetry And Poets, The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works, How to Read the Bible as Literature: . . . and Get More Out of It, NIV, Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture, The Historical Novel, The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods, Mark for Everyone, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity

On Poetry And Poets
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0571089836
My Ph.D advisor Leonard Unger made his career on the first book studying TS Eliot's verse, in 1947, and to the end of his life, as a scholar and wit, he returned to Eliot's subjects, like 17C wits (and Shakespeare) as well as to Eliot himself, in Eliot's Compound Ghost, which strongly influenced my own dissertation,...
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works
AuthorGaius Julius Caesar
ISBN0307377865
Gallic War - Civil War - Alexandrian War - African War - Spanish War

Between 58 and 50 B.C., Caesar led his army to twice invade Britain and conquer most of the land that is now France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The Gallic Wars served two purposes: to offer a record of Caesar's travels and insights...
How to Read the Bible as Literature: . . . and Get More Out of It
AuthorLeland Ryken
ISBN0310390214
Why the Good Book Is a Great Read If you want to rightly understand the Bible, you must begin by recognizing what it is: a composite of literary styles. It is meant to be read, not just interpreted. The Bible’s truths are embedded like jewels in the rich strata of story and poetry, metaphor and proverb,...
NIV, Archaeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture
AuthorAnonymous
I don't have anything against this book, but it gets one star because some fucking Larry the Cable Guy lookalike and his bovine looking wife gave Karen and I both way too much shit yesterday because their fat asses were blocking shelves while they each leafed through this book. Like good Christians when...
The Historical Novel
AuthorGyörgy Lukács
ISBN0850363780
Bastante difícil, mas também bastante iluminador. Os estudos sobre realismo europeu (Thomas Mann e outros) e as diversas considerações sobre Épica e Dramática na historiografia literária são sensacionais. O estudo que Lukács faz sobre o desenvolvimento e o "futuro" do romance histórico...
The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods
AuthorJosiah Blake Tidwell
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Mark for Everyone
AuthorTom Wright
Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the Gospel of Mark and what it might mean for us are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh translation of the Bible text. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the urgency and...
Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN1594482217
"The most controversial, explosive, and important book yet from the renowned author and critic." Harold Bloom uses his unsurpassed skills to examine the character of Jesus: the inconsistencies, the contradictions, and the Gospels' flaws of logic. He also explores the character of Yahweh, who Bloom...
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
AuthorFrank Kermode
ISBN0195136128
s/t: With a New Epilogue
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis. Prompted by the approach...
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0195114450
The remarkable diversity of Christianity during the formative years before the Council of Nicea has become a plain, even natural, "fact" for most ancient historians. Until now, however, there has been no sourcebook of primary texts that reveals the many varieties of Christian beliefs, practices,...
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
AuthorNorthrop Frye
ISBN0156027801
An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. “No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy...
The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages
AuthorHelen Waddell
ISBN0486414361
This is that strangeness, without which beauty is not made perfect.

This is the wonky cousin of The White Goddess from Robert Graves. Rampant rolls of verse citation seep and suggest all the anxious influence of the ancients, particularly the Irish, who survived the initial pillage from the...
An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach
AuthorBruce K. Waltke
ISBN0310218977
The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even more than a theological and prophetic backdrop to the New Testament. Beyond these, the Old Testament is inspired revelation of the very nature, character, and...
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
AuthorM.H. Abrams
ISBN0195014715
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?

M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel: With the Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton
AuthorJohn Donne
ISBN0375705481
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful.

Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age...
The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy : A New Translation with Introductions, Commentary: 1
AuthorEverett Fox
ISBN0805211195
The sound and the sense...of the original.

Newly translated by Everett Fox with (lots of) commentary and notes, this version of Torah brings with it a lifetime of devotion and scholarship; it is an outstanding study resource and an exceptional choice for public reading. Fox brings the sensibilities,...
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
AuthorRalph C. Wood
ISBN0802829996
Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Fifty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. For those...
Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman
AuthorGeorge Steiner
ISBN0300074719
How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as...
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
AuthorMieke Bal
ISBN0802078060
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal...
The Pooh Perplex
AuthorFrederick C. Crews
ISBN0226120589
In this devastatingly funny classic, Frederick Crews skewers the ego-inflated pretensions of the schools and practitioners of literary criticism popular in the 1960s, including Freudians, Aristotelians, and New Critics. Modeled on the "casebooks" often used in freshman English classes at the...
From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy
AuthorMatthew Dickerson
ISBN1587431335
The allure of fantasy continues to grow with film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. But how should Christians approach modern works of fantasy, especially debated points such as magic and witches?

From Homer to Harry Potter provides the historical...
The Poetry Handbook
AuthorJohn Lennard
ISBN0199265380
This volume is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at different poems, to build up sustained analytical readings.

The...
The Function of Criticism
AuthorTerry Eagleton
ISBN1844670554
A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida.

This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a “public sphere” in which political, ethical, and literary judgements...
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