The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading

This . . . is a brilliant work. --Choice

[Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he understands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives. . . . a superb overview . . . --Theological Studies

. . . rated very highly indeed. It is a book to read and then reread. --Modern Language Review

. . . Sternberg has accomplished an enormous task, enriching our understanding of the theoretical basis of biblical narrative and giving us insight into a remarkable number of particular texts. --Journal of the American Academy of Religion

. . . an important book for those who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work because it shows, more clearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literary work--a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrative poetics. --Adele Berlin, Prooftexts