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American professor

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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, where he was for many years a contributing editor.

He has written twenty-three books, most recently his translation of the entire Hebrew Bible.^[3] He lectures on topics ranging from biblical episodes^[vague] to Kafka's modernism and Hebrew literature.

Biblical studies

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