Robert Alter
Author · 22 books
Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967, and has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature.
Books
The Literary Guide to the Bible
1987
Ancient Israel
The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary
2013
Canon and Creativity
Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
2000
The Book of Psalms
A Translation with Commentary
2007
Partial Magic
The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre
1975
The Wisdom Books
Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
2010
A Lion for Love
A Critical Biography of Stendhal
1979
Genesis
Translation and Commentary
1996
Nabokov and the Real World
Between Appreciation and Defense
2021
The David Story
A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
1999
The Five Books of Moses
2004
Pen of Iron
American Prose and the King James Bible
2010
Necessary Angels
Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
1991
The World Of Biblical Literature
1978
The Art of Biblical Narrative
1981
The Hebrew Bible
A Translation with Commentary
2018
The Art of Bible Translation
1999
Genesis
Commentary
500
The Art of Biblical Poetry
1985
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
1989
Twelve Minor Prophets
A Translation with Commentary
2025
Imagined Cities
Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel
2005
