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

"[Sternberg] has written a very important book, bothfor his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which heunderstands and interprets the strategies of the biblical narratives.... a superboverview... " -- Theological Studies

..". rated veryhighly indeed. It is a book to read and then reread." -- Modern LanguageReview

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

..". an important book forthose who seek to take the Bible seriously as a literary work because it shows, moreclearly and emphatically than any book I know, that the Bible is a serious literarywork -- a text manifesting a highly sophisticated and successful narrativepoetics." -- Adele Berlin, Prooftexts