Books by Robert Alter

Robert Alter
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Showing 38 distinct works.

	Genesis by Robert Alter 4.18 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1967 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter 4.13 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter 4.46 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem, Robert Alter (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1929 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The David Story: A Translation With Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel by Robert Alter 4.27 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Psalms by Anonymous, Robert Alter (Translator, Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Song of Songs: A New Translation, Gift Edition by Robert Alter, Ariel Bloch (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Art Of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Robert Alter, Solomon (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lit Guide to the Bible P by Robert Alter (Editor) 3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The World Of Biblical Literature by Robert Alter 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age by Robert Alter, Alter 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Amos Oz Reader by Amos Oz, Nitza Ben Dov (Editor), Nicholas de Lange (Translation), Robert Alter (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel by Robert Alter 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem by Robert Alter 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Window: New and Selected Poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch, Robert Alter 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre by Robert Alter 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon by Frank Kermode, Robert Alter 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal by Robert Alter, Carol Cosman 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	Hebrew and Modernity by Robert Alter 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism by Robert Alter 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture by Robert Alter 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Modern Hebrew Literature by Robert Alter (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel by Robert Alter 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1964	My rating:
	Genesis Reading Group Guide: A New Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Unentbehrliche Engel by Robert Alter 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Robert Alter (Editor), Naomi Seidman (Editor), Michael Gluzman (Editor) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	My rating:
	Motives for Fiction by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Fielding and the Nature of the Novel by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	Stendhal: A Biography by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	How Long Till My Soul Gets It Right?: 100 Doorways On The Journey To Happiness by Robert Alter, Jane Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Genesis, Vol. 3 by Robert Alter, Thomas Moore (Contribution by), Michael Toms (Contribution by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	On Biblical Narrative (Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities, 1999.) by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Water for Pabolee: Stories about People and Development in the Himalayas by Robert Alter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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