Robert Bernard Alter was born on 1935 and is an American professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.
12 Facts About Robert Alter
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Robert Alter 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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Robert Alter was born in a Jewish American family, and first learned Hebrew as part of his religious upbringing.
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Robert Alter started his career as a writer at Commentary, where he was for many years a contributing editor.
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Robert Alter has written twenty-four books, including his three-thousand-page translation of the entire Hebrew Bible.
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Robert Alter has served as an active member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress and as the president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
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Robert Alter was a Guggenheim fellow in 1966 and 1978.
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Robert Alter was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.
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Robert Alter was a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion fellow at Princeton University.
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Robert Alter is a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Review of Books.
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Robert Alter was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree by Yale University in 2010.
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Robert Alter is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Hebrew University.