Discover

'Robert Alter' is a Biblical scholar and professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He has written seventeen books, and is noted most recently for his translations of both the original Hebrew Pentateuch in ''The Five Books of Moses'' (ISBN 0-393-01955-1), ''The David Story'' (1 and 2 Samuel) (ISBN 0-393-32077-4) and ''Genesis''. 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.

Contents

External links

External links

★ Listing in UCBerkeley's faculty pages

★ Biography at Washington University in St. Louis

★ ''The Five Books of Moses'' review at ''The New Yorker''

★ ''The Five Books of Moses'' review at ''The Washington Post''