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Robert Alter

Robert Alter teaches Hebrew and comparative literature at Berkeley. His translation of Psalms, with a commentary, will be published by Norton in the autumn.

Selected bibliography

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007) Buy this book
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel (2005)
The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004) Buy this book
Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon by Frank Kermode, edited by Robert Alter (2004)
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (1999)
Hebrew and Modernity (1994)
The World of Biblical Literature (1992)
Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin and Scholem (1991)
Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989)
The Art of Biblical Narrative (1982)

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Committee Speak · 19 July 2007

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn Buy this book

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Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation by Mary Douglas Buy this book

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Robert Alter

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