{"id":6447,"date":"2020-09-24T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:12:52","slug":"alter-on-writing-the-art-of-biblical-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2020\/09\/24\/alter-on-writing-the-art-of-biblical-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Alter on writing The Art of Biblical Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Alter)\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Alter<\/a>is<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a scholar and translator whose rendition of the Pentateuch into English we read in the first-year Core humanists as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Five Books of Moses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Earlier this year, in January, Alter was invited to deliver a lecture to students in Brigham Young University&#8217;s program in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. In his talk, he discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Biblical-Narrative-Robert-Alter\/dp\/0465022553\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Biblical Narrative<\/i><\/a>, his book-length appreciation of the craft and composition of one of the world&#8217;s most widely-read texts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Egi5vnCafic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Core students interested in taking a look at <i>The Art of Biblical Narrative<\/i> can <a href=\"mailto:core@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">contact the Core office staff <\/a> to request to borrow the book from the Core library, or to request online access to our digital copy. You may also be interested in his more recent work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Bible-Translation-Robert-Alter\/dp\/0691181497\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Art of Bible Translation<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Alterisa scholar and translator whose rendition of the Pentateuch into English we read in the first-year Core humanists as The Five Books of Moses. Earlier this year, in January, Alter was invited to deliver a lecture to students in Brigham Young University&#8217;s program in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. In his talk, he discusses The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,48628,4854,3856],"tags":[2252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}