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Robert Alter

American professor · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1935 · age 91

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.

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Awards

Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem2015
Honorary Doctor of Yale University2010
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Jewish Book Awards

About this person

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1935 · age 91