Robert Alter

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Robert Alter was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Lifetime Achievement and the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. He is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 1,022 ratings · 168 reviews · 38 distinct works

	The Art of Biblical Narrative 4.13 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Genesis 4.17 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1967 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Five Books of Moses 4.46 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The David Story: A Translation With Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel 4.27 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Art Of Biblical Poetry 3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1985 — 4 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 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 3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The World Of Biblical Literature 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.”
― Robert Alter

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