Robert Alter

Robert Alter

Robert Alter is a Biblical scholar and the Class of '37 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. [cite web
title = UC Berkeley Department of Comparative Literature: Faculty
url = http://complit.berkeley.edu/faculty.php
accessdate = 2008-02-09
] He has written seventeen books, and is noted most recently for his translations of sections of the Bible. His works have garnered positive reviews from such publications as "The New Yorker" and "The Washington Post".

Known for his wide range of expertise and appealing use of language, he lectures on topics varying from Biblical episodes to Kafka's modernism. One of his more important contributions is the introduction of the type scene into contemporary scholarly Hebrew Bible studies. An example of a type scene would be the going to the well in order to get water, which is something that happens a number of times especially in Genesis, and the purpose of which is generally for the man in question to find a suitable mate.

Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his master's (1958) and doctorate degrees (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 served as an active member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is currently serving as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He has twice (1966, 1978) been a Guggenheim Fellow, [cite web
title = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation A Fellows Page
url = http://www.gf.org/afellow.html
accessdate = 2008-02-09
] has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jeruselem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University.

elected Works

* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ALTMOT.html "Motives for Fiction"] , 1984, Harvard University Press
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ALTLIX.html "A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal"] , in collaboration with Carol Cosman, 1986, Harvard University Press
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ALTLIT.html "The Literary Guide to the Bible"] Edited by Alter and Frank Kermode, 1987, Harvard University Press
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ALTNEC.html "Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem"] , 1991, Harvard University Press
* "The Five Books of Moses", ISBN 0-393-01955-1
* "The David Story" (1 and 2 Samuel), ISBN 0-393-32077-4
* "Psalms", ISBN 978-0-393-06226-7

References

External links

* [http://complit.berkeley.edu/faculty.php Listing in UCBerkeley's faculty pages]
* [http://wupa.wustl.edu/asmbly/bio/Alter Biography at Washington University in St. Louis]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041101crbo_books "The Five Books of Moses" review at "The New Yorker"]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52962-2004Oct21.html "The Five Books of Moses" review at "The Washington Post"]
* [http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=226 "The Five Books of Moses" review by Alan Jacobs in "First Things" (Aug/Sept. 2005)]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/10/01/071001crbo_books_wood "The Book of Psalms" review at "The New Yorker"]


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