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I read much of this as I studied screenwriting, which is fitting for the Bible tends to read at a clip, never bogged down in florrid description. Indeed, here, the David Saga alone sings. Amid David's transition from innocence to swagger and guile and later debauchery, we witness a complex figure whose toggle between love and cruelty leaps off the page. David is surely no Jonathan. Throughout 1st / 2nd Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, we get the best single narrative with the most complex persona we have passed down from antiquity coming to life in a bracing new way. Alter's choices capture the prose of a raw, cultured people, contradiction in terms intended. I, too, have not read it all, but his Genesis, indeed, retains an ancient cadence, without sacrificing a kind of concrete beauty in language choices.