Robert Alter

Robert Alter is the author of The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary. He teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Berkeley.

In the LRB Archive:

• Wrong Side of the River: River Jordan · 21 June 2012

  • River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line by Rachel Havrelock

• Who will punish the lord?: Saramago’s Cain · 6 October 2011

  • Cain by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

• How to Hiss and Huff: Mann’s Moses · 2 December 2010

  • The Tables of the Law by Thomas Mann, translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann

• Committee Speak: Bible Writers · 19 July 2007

  • Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn

• Uncleanness: Reading Leviticus anthropologically · 3 March 2005

  • Jacob’s Tears: The Priestly Work of Reconciliation by Mary Douglas

• Naming the flowers · 24 February 1994

  • A History of the Hebrew Language by Angel Sáenz-Badillos, translated by John Elwolde
  • Language in Time of Revolution by Benjamin Harshav

• Looking for a Crucifixion · 9 September 1993

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise

• Paying for the paper · 6 August 1992

  • Life with a Star by Jiri Weil, translated by Rita Klimova and Roslyn Schloss
  • Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil, translated by Marie Winn

• Outside the Academy · 13 February 1992

  • Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750-1990 by Patrick Parrinder
  • A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950. Vol. VII: German, Russian and Eastern European Criticism, 1900-1950 by René Wellek

• Darkness and a slippery place · 25 April 1991

  • The Confessions of Saint Augustine translated with an introduction and notes by Henry Chadwick

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