Robert Alter

1935

**Wikipedia:** Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935)[1] is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.[2] He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018. **Biography** 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 Magazine, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has written twenty-three books, an

• The art of biblical narrative
• The Five Books of Moses
• The literary guide to the Bible
• The Art of Biblical Poetry
• Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
• The Hebrew Bible
• The world of biblical literature
• Genesis
• Hebrew and modernity
• L'art du récit biblique
• The David Story
• The invention of Hebrew prose