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Robert Alter

Literature

#342

World Rank

#956

Historical Rank

#172

USA Rank

Philology

#113

World Rank

#311

Historical Rank

#17

USA Rank

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Bachelors English Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He published his translation of the Hebrew Bible in 2018.

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The Art of Biblical Narrative (1983) (716)
The Art of Biblical Poetry (1985) (221)
The literary guide to the Bible (1988) (149)
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel (2005) (80)
Sustained blood pressure increase after an acute stressor: the effects of the 11 September 2001 attack on the New York City World Trade Center (2005) (69)
Salvaging Literature, Savaging Theory@@@The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989) (37)
Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991) (35)
Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon (2004) (33)
The Five Books of Moses (2004) (32)
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (2000) (31)
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007) (26)
The Song of Songs : a new translation with an introduction and commentary (1995) (24)
The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism (1988) (22)
Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (2000) (17)
Biblical Type-Scenes and the Uses of Convention (1978) (16)
After the tradition: Essays on modern Jewish writing (1971) (15)
Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis (1977) (11)
Telephone-linked home blood pressure monitoring may improve management (1999) (9)
Motives for fiction (1984) (8)
Some Pitfalls in the "Literary Approach" to Biblical Narrative (1984) (7)
The Demons of History in Dickens' "Tale" (1969) (7)
The Art of Bible Translation (2019) (7)
Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age (1998) (4)
Pleasure and Change (2004) (4)
In Our Beginnings (1997) (4)
SACRED HISTORY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF PROSE FICTION (1980) (3)
Putting Together Biblical Narrative (1990) (3)
Fielding and the Uses of Style (1967) (2)
Clear and Convincing to Whom the False Claims Act and Its Burden of Proof Standard: Why the Government Needs a Big Stick (2000) (2)
Northrop Frye: Between Archetype and Typology (2001) (2)
The Book of Genesis (2009) (1)
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (2015) (1)
Dan Pagis and the poetry of displacement (1996) (1)
A Question of Beginnings (2011) (1)
The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict and the Quest for Meaning (2016) (1)
Genesis , Commentary to Chapter 2 : 4-24 Everett Fox (2005) (0)
A Life of Learning: Wandering among Fields (2013) (0)
How Berkeley Made the Old Testament New (2015) (0)
Henry Fielding and the Language of Irony.@@@Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel.@@@Fielding and the Nature of the Novel.@@@Daniel Defoe and the Supernatural.@@@Eighteenth-Century British Novelists on the Novel.@@@The Art of "Joseph Andrews." (1970) (0)
The Blessings of Metonymy: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (2017) (0)
P-17: Effects of 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on blood pressure in four regions of the US (2003) (0)
Jewish Writing@@@After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing@@@Saul Bellow and the Critics@@@Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man (1970) (0)
Corpus Callosum Area and Brain Volume in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Quantitative Analysis of Structural MRI from the ABIDE Database (2015) (0)
The Dead Sea Scrolls by John Collins; The Essenes, the Scrolls and the Dead Sea by Joan Taylor (2013) (0)
Readers Respond (2017) (0)
FROM LINE TO STORY IN BIBLICAL VERSE (1983) (0)
The Vengeance of the Skull in Yehuda Amichai’s Not of This Time, Not of This Place (2019) (0)
The Hebrew Bible in Literary Criticism@@@The Literary Guide to the Bible@@@Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (1989) (0)
The Bible as Literature: A Critical Escape@@@The Art of Biblical Poetry@@@The Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading@@@Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (1986) (0)
Political Fiction, Ancient and Modern: From David’s Court to Fabrice’s Charterhouse (2017) (0)
Fatal Commingling of Profit and Non-Profit: New Jersey Tax Court Denies Non-Profit Hospital Property Tax Exemption – Now All Non-Profit Hospitals Are at Risk (2015) (0)
James Joyce's Comic Messiah (2016) (0)
Robert Alter on Scholarly Trajectories, Disciplinary Identity, and Translation (2017) (0)
Some implications for biblical interpretations of "The art biblical poetry" by Robert Alter (1991) (0)
The Bible under the Critic's Loupe (1988) (0)
Up AgAinst thE grEAt trAditions : thE CArEEr of shEilA dElAny 1 (2009) (0)
A Long View of the Narrative Studies Profession: An Interview with Robert Alter (2018) (0)
Chapter Seven. Extract From Genesis 1–2 Translation And Commentary, Norton, Ny 1996 (2007) (0)
The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Literary Language and the Dilemmas of Mimesis, pt. 3, sect. 1 (1987) (0)
A Response To Critics (1983) (0)
Fielding and the Nature of the Novel@@@Henry Fielding and the Language of Irony@@@Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage (1971) (0)
Ancestral Tales: Reading the Buczacz Stories of S. Y. Agnon by Alan Mintz (review) (2020) (0)

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The Art of Biblical Narrative