Robert Alter

About the Author

Robert Alter is Professor in the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. His award-winning translation of The Hebrew Bible was twenty-four years in the making. Alter completed it in 2018. He is the author of fifteen other books on the Bible and the modern novel.