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Robert Alter

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Gender Male
Age 89
Date of birth April 2,1935
Zodiac sign Aries
Born New York City
New York
United States
Job Professor
Education Harvard University
Columbia University
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought & Experience
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
Hebrew Bible
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
The Art of Biblical Poetry
Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary
Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary
The pleasures of reading
The Art of Bible Translation
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
Imagined cities
The world of biblical literature
Motives for fiction
Canon and creativity
A lion for love
Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
Pen of Iron
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-conscious Genre
The invention of Hebrew prose
Fielding and the nature of the novel
Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel
Hebrew and modernity
Defenses of the Imagination
AFTER THE TRADITION
Water for Pabolee
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)
Genesis Reading Group Guide: A New Translation and Commentary
The Hebrew Bible
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Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018.

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