The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of One and Two Samuel »

Robert Alter was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Lifetime Achievement and the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. He is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature.

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

New York Times Book Review - Jonathan Wilson

There is no better place to reassess the character of David than in Alter's masterly new translation....It will, I hope and expect, prove as influential and popular as his 1996 version of Genesis...[He] can draw a large, serious and, one imagines, largely secular audience of readers eager to take on the Bible as literature.