# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-alter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:54:30.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-alter"
name: "Robert Alter"
slug: "robert-alter"
description: "Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He has published two dozen books, including an award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018, which was twenty-four years in the making."
tagline: "American professor (b. 1935)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.40320933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "روبرت ألتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرت التر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Робърт Олтър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "رابرت آلتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8"
    title: "רוברט אלטר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alter"
    title: "Robert Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4112220"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump