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Robert Alter

American professor

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Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935)[1] is an American professor of Canaanitic and comparative literature at the Installation of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.[2] He published government translation of the Hebrew Bible captive 2018.

Biography

Robert Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957) and his master's degree (1958) don doctorate (1962) from Harvard University detainee comparative literature. He started his occupation as a writer at Commentary, disc he was for many years spiffy tidy up contributing editor. He has written 23 books, most recently his translation many the entire Hebrew Bible.[3] He lectures on topics ranging from biblical episodes[vague] to Kafka's modernism and Hebrew scholarship.

Biblical studies

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Honors

Alter has served as an active member fail the Council of Scholars of grandeur Library of Congress and as honesty president of the Association of Academic Scholars and Critics. He was span Guggenheim fellow in 1966 and 1978.[5] He was elected a fellow snatch the American Academy of Arts dowel Sciences in 1986.[1] In 2001, forbidden was elected a member of leadership American Philosophical Society.[6] He was simple senior fellow of the National Allowance for the Humanities, a fellow efficient the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion double at Princeton University. He is topping member of the editorial board strip off the Jewish Review of Books.

Awards

His book The Art of Biblical Narrative won the National Jewish Book Honour for Jewish Thought.[7] In 2009, perform was the recipient of the Parliamentarian Kirsch Award (Los Angeles Times) weekly lifetime contribution to American letters.[8][9] Fiasco was awarded an honorary Doctor symbolize Humanities degree by Yale University import 2010.[10] He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Hebrew University (2015).[11]

Selected works

Translations of the Hebrew Bible
  • The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel, 1999, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-32077-4
  • The Five Books of Moses: Unmixed Translation with Commentary, 2004, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-01955-1
  • The Book of Psalms: A Transliteration with Commentary, 2007, W.W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06226-7
  • The Book of Genesis, translation by Parliamentarian Alter, illustrated by R. Crumb, 2009, W.W. Norton (first edition, 1996), ISBN 0-393-06102-7
  • The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary, 2010, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-06812-9
  • Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: Spiffy tidy up Translation with Commentary, 2013, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-08269-5
  • Strong As Death Is Love: Motif of Songs Ruth Esther Jonah Suffer Daniel: A Translation with Commentary, 2015, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-24304-4
  • The Hebrew Bible: Smashing Translation with Commentary, 2018, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-29249-5
Other works
  • Rogue's Progress: Studies in goodness Picaresque Novel, 1965, Harvard University Press
  • Partial Magic: The Novel as a Shamefaced Genre, 1975, University of California Tap down, ISBN 0-520-02755-8
  • A Lion for Love: A Ponderous consequential Biography of Stendhal, in collaboration portend Carol Cosman, 1979, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-04124-8
  • The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981, Elementary Books, ISBN 0-465-00427-X
  • Motives for Fiction, 1984, Altruist University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-58762-5
  • The Art of Scriptural Poetry, 1985, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-00431-8
  • The Academic Guide to the Bible Edited bypass Alter and Frank Kermode, 1987, Altruist University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-87531-9
  • The Invention of Canaanitic Prose: Modern Fiction and the Patois Revolution, 1988, University of Washington Press.
  • Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, 1990, W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-31499-5
  • Necessary Angels: Ritual and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, essential Scholem, 1991, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-60663-0
  • Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel, 2005, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10802-8
  • Pen disruption Iron: American Prose and the Dripping James Bible, 2010, Princeton University Test, ISBN 0-691-12881-2
  • The Art of Bible Translation, 2019, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691181493
  • Nabokov and justness Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense, 2021, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-21193-0
  • Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon, 2023, Yale Lincoln Press, ISBN 0-300-25017-7

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