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First publish date: 2018
Authors: Robert Alter
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The Bible Unfiltered by Amy-Jill Levine
The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion by John Barton
The Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: King James Version by Michael D. Coogan
The JPS Tanakh Translation by American Jewish Publication Society
The Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel
The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion by John Barton
The Bible and Its Interpretation by Peter Machinist
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by John J. Collins
The Qur'an and the Bible: Text and Commentary by Mary Ann Glendon
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

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