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5. The Bible as Literature | Dr. Robert Alter

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

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The Importance of Order in English

The 24 books that Hebrew Bible are so variegated in their genre. And the writing and the style, I mean, you couldn't find two more different books than let's say the Book of Kings versus the Song of Songs or Job. So there's some kind of lack of sensitivity to the nuances of meaning of English words. One sentence will sound like a bureaucratic directive and the next sentence like the daily newspaper.

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