RARE comprehensive monograph on biblical narratology by an eminent Israeli literary critic and biblical scholar Meir Sternberg, Artzt Professor of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. Along with Robert Alter and Adele Berlin, Sternberg is one of the most prominent practitioners of a literary approach to the Bible. 235x155mm. XVI+580 pages. Burgundy cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Jacket edges and corners tattered. Jacket spine bottom part missing. Jacket rear bottom right corner torn and taped. Spine edges bumped. Pencil underlining/notes on endpaper and many pages. Pen underlining/notes on few pages. [SUMMARY]: This influential literary study of the Old Testament is otherwise in good condition.