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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Robert Alter
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 3500
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393292497
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**Wikipedia:** Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935)[1] is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.[2] He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018. **Biography** Robert Alter earned his bachelor's degree in English (Columbia University, 1957), and his master's degree (1958) and doctorate (1962) from Harvard University in comparative literature. He started his career as a writer at Commentary Magazine, where he was for many years a contributing editor. He has written twenty-three books, and is noted most recently for his translations of sections of the Bible. He lectures on topics varying from
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