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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. Robert Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his master's degree (1958) and doctorate (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature. He started his career as a writer at Commentary, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has written twenty-three books, and is noted most recently for his translation of the entire Hebrew Bible. He lectures on topics varying from Biblical episodes to Kafka's modernism and Hebrew literature. One of Alter's important contributions is the introduction of the type scene into contemporary scholarly Hebrew Bible studies.
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The Five Books of Moses
Robert Alter
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1239
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The Art of Biblical Poetry
Robert Alter
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1236
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The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Robert Alter
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Genesis: Translation and Commentary
Robert Alter
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The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter
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1094
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Hebrew and Modernity
Robert Alter
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Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel
Robert Alter
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1063
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The Book of Psalms
Robert Alter
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1014
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter
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Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis
Robert Alter
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986
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Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
Robert Alter
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984
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Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre
Robert Alter
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919
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The Literary Guide to the Bible
Robert Alter
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888
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
Robert Alter
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858
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A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
Robert Alter
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813
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Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel
Robert Alter
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Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
Robert Alter
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The world of biblical literature
Robert Alter
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771
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After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing
Robert Alter
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