Robert Alter re. Biblical Narrative and Poetry

I would love to have Robert Alter's books on Logos:

* The Art of Biblical Narrative (reads like a guided tour of the Old Testament, highlighting interesting aspects of the storytelling you've never seen before - like getting a museum guide to shine the light on small but highly significant parts of paintings to shed new light on their meaning)

* The Art of Biblical Poetry (does the same for OT poetry)

* The Five Books of Moses, A Translation with Commentary - worth it for the introduction on language and storytelling alone

* The Book of Psalms, A Translation with Commentary

It would be great to have his references to hand when studying any part of the OT on which he comments, as he sheds a fresh new light, from a thorough understanding of the Hebrew, storytelling and poetry writing, literary composition etc.

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MJ. Smith

[Y]

David Knoll

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/252047#Comment_252047

[Y]

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/252047#Comment_252047

[Y]

Those two recommendations are good enough for me! [:)]

Ben

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/252154#Comment_252154

And his 1-2 Samuel!

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/252181#Comment_252181

[Y]

Dudley Rose

I would like to restart this suggestion.

elnwood

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/437691#Comment_437691

[Y]

davidphillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/437767#Comment_437767

[Y], especially The Art of Biblical Narrative

Joseph Turner

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/456956#Comment_456956

[Y]

Adam Rao

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/456959#Comment_456959

Everything by Robert Alter is worth having.

Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457008#Comment_457008

I have his translations in hard copy. Some of Alter's work is quite admirable indeed.

I'd love to go digital with Logos

Luke Ture

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/457389#Comment_457389

[Y]

Mary-Ellen

[Y]

John Goodman

[Y]

Joseph Hart

I use these resources in Kindle. But would get far more use out of them if they appeared in my Logos library. It would be nice to connect his Biblical translations together as a useable bible and code the commentary as a linked resource! Worth the $$$ I'll gladly pay.

Fr Devin Roza

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/559958#Comment_559958

[Y]

Peter Comont

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/559971#Comment_559971

[Y]

👍👍👍

[Y]

Yes please.

I would love to have Robert Alter's books on Logos:

[Y]

Rob

Howl, for the LORD’s day is near,

as shattering from Shaddai it shall come.

Isaiah 13.6 Alter, 2019

Rosie Perera

Please see my latest post with plea for votes on all of Alter's books which I've now added individually on UserVoice. Follow the links from there to go vote for all of them.

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/185504.aspx

Ben

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1069802#Comment_1069802

I've been absent from the forums for a good while, working on my dissertation. I watch the sales and the prepub pretty closely.

But today I ran a search and was shocked to find... two Robert Alter books!
https://www.logos.com/search?filters=author-123891_Author&sortBy=Relevance&limit=30&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe&viewMode=list&autoFacets=0

Seems like these bypassed the prepub process? Or something?

Still hoping for all the others.

Ben

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280948#Comment_1280948

So I promptly bought Art of Biblical Narrative... and the font changes size a LOT. I think it's supposed to shrink a little for long block quotes of scripture, but then it tends to stay small for the following section. But sometimes it's just really inconsistent.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280949#Comment_1280949

The Kindle on that page shows no difference in font or spacing.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280948#Comment_1280948

I've been absent from the forums for a good while, working on my dissertation. I watch the sales and the prepub pretty closely.

But today I ran a search and was shocked to find... two Robert Alter books!
https://www.logos.com/search?filters=author-123891_Author&sortBy=Relevance&limit=30&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe&viewMode=list&autoFacets=0

Seems like these bypassed the prepub process? Or something?

Whoa!

But bummer! They are not available in Canada. I've been waiting all this time only to be disappointed? [:@]

So I promptly bought Art of Biblical Narrative... and the font changes size a LOT. I think it's supposed to shrink a little for long block quotes of scripture, but then it tends to stay small for the following section. But sometimes it's just really inconsistent.

Are these FLEB editions or Logos editions?

Ben

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280970#Comment_1280970

fle, alas

Ben

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280984#Comment_1280984

Any idea who I would email about this?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1281037#Comment_1281037

Use the forums and a prefix of BUG or DATABUG ...