The David Story

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A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel

By Robert Alter

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The David Story presents a masterful new translation and commentary on the life of David, Israel's iconic king. Robert Alter vividly reimagines David as a beautiful, musical hero known for slaying Goliath and rising through fraught struggles with Saul. Yet this David is portrayed with full humanity—as an ambitious and calculating man whose flawed morals lead to tragic consequences for himself, his family, and his nation.

This work blends historical insight with rich literary artistry, likening David's story to Shakespearean history plays.
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Ideal for readers interested in religious texts, biblical history, and literary reinterpretations of classic figures.

"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999

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Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel.

But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.

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Robert Fagles praises it as "the most compelling version of [the David] story since the King James Bible."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393320770

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 September 2000

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: One map

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 343g

Pages: 448

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Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Robert Alter

About the Author

Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, the magnificent capstone to a lifetime of distinguished scholarly work, has won the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. His immense achievements in scholarship ranging from the eighteenth-century European novel to contemporary Hebrew and American literature earned Alter the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.