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expositions-108	none	Robert Alter and the Resistance to Theory	2008	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4221	115	43	Going through his annotations to one of my favorite episodes in Genesis, cain’s slaying of his brother Abel, the only verse Alter skips over where I tend to pause is 4:13, where cain’s reply to the LORD’s judgment, “gadol ‘avoni minso’ ” can mean either that cain’s “sin” or his “punishment” is greater than 214 Robert Alter and the Resistance to Theory © Equinox Publishing Ltd. Similarly, in his introduction to his translation and commentary on the Book of Samuel, Alter contends that “much of the richness and complexity 216 Robert Alter and the Resistance to Theory © Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2008 of the story is lost by those who imagine this book as a stringing together of virtually independent sources” (The David Story x).	cache/expositions-108.pdf	txt/expositions-108.txt