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The story of David is the greatest single narrative representation in antiquity of a human life evolving by slow stages through time. In its main character it provides the first full-length portrait of a Machiavellian prince in Western literature. The beautiful, musical David, the resourceful slayer of Goliath, loved by all, reveals himself as a calculating political animal. To advance his own cause, he becomes a collaborator with the archenemies of Israel, the Philistines. Later he commits adultory with Bathsheba and compounds the betrayal with murder. He exposes himself repeatedly to humiliation, oscillates between noble sentiment and harsh vindictiveness, and with his dying breath charges his son Solomon to wreak bloody vengeance on his enemies. This translation and commentary enables a great literary work to emerge from the Bible and stand on its own.

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There is no better place to reassess the character of David than in Robert Alter's masterly new translation.... It will, I hope and expect, prove as influential and popular as his version of Genesis. --Jonathan Wilson"

A remarkable new translation.... Anyone who cares about the Bible or the English language will want to read it.... Alter's extraordinary work shows that Bible scholarship is healthy and getting healthier. Read it and rejoice. --David Gelernter"

[Alter's translation is] sober and clear and fluid, judiciously alluding to King James language while accumulating fresh nuance.... Masterful nuance. --Edward Rothstein"

A splendid new translation of one of the Bible's greatest stories. "

The most compelling version of [the David] story since the King James Bible. --Robert Fagles"
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Alter's critically acclaimed Genesis, which "achieves a robust beauty without any touch of the fake antique" (The Independent) and is "very rich and satisfying" (Financial Times), is also available from Norton, as is The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

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  • PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 0393048039
  • ISBN 13 9780393048032
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages448
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