Robert Alter

Robert Alter is a scholar, literary critic, and translator of the Hebrew Bible. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Art of Biblical Narrative, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and he is recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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