Robert Alter (disambiguation)

"Robert Alter" is composed of at least 2 distinct authors, divided by their works.

About the Author

Includes the names: Robert Alter, ed. Robert Alter, Robert Alter trans, Robert Alter trans., Роберт Ольтер

Author Division

Robert Alter (1)

The Art of Biblical Narrative (1981) 1,732 copies, 17 reviews
The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (2009) — Translator — 1,385 copies, 53 reviews
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, Volume 1: The Five Books of Moses (2004) — Translator — 1,096 copies, 15 reviews
Genesis: Translation and Commentary (1996) 928 copies, 6 reviews
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007) 882 copies, 11 reviews
The Literary Guide to the Bible (1987) — Editor — 836 copies, 4 reviews
The Art of Biblical Poetry (1985) 810 copies, 7 reviews
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (2018) 738 copies, 4 reviews
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (1999) 633 copies, 7 reviews
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary (2010) 562 copies, 10 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 480 copies, 4 reviews
The World of Biblical Literature (1992) 353 copies, 1 review
The Song of Songs: A New Translation (1995) — Afterword, some editions — 343 copies, 2 reviews
The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (1998) — Contributor, some editions — 287 copies
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age (1989) 276 copies, 1 review
Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary (2013) 275 copies, 1 review
The Art of Bible Translation (2019) 190 copies, 2 reviews
Strong as Death Is Love : The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel : A Translation with Commentary (2015) 185 copies, 1 review
Israeli Stories: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing (1965) — Introduction — 123 copies, 1 review
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010) 106 copies, 4 reviews
Modern Hebrew Literature (1975) 98 copies
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel (2005) 62 copies, 1 review
Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991) 52 copies
Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (2000) 49 copies, 1 review
The Amos Oz Reader (2009) — Foreword — 49 copies
Partial Magic: The Novel as Self-Conscious Genre (1975) 38 copies, 1 review
Defenses of the Imagination: Jewish Writers and Modern Historical Crisis (1977) 36 copies
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal (1979) 36 copies
After the tradition; essays on modern Jewish writing (1971) 27 copies
Hebrew and Modernity (1994) 27 copies
The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis (1989) — Introduction — 27 copies
The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language of Realism (Samuel and Athea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) (1988) 25 copies
The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (1990) — Contributor — 20 copies
Israel: A Traveler's Literary Companion (1996) — Foreword — 19 copies
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense (2021) 18 copies
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, Volume 3: The Writings 17 copies, 1 review
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, Volume 2: Prophets 17 copies, 1 review
Motives for Fiction (1984) 13 copies
The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence (2013) — Contributor — 11 copies
Gershom Scholem (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) (1987) — Contributor — 7 copies
Imagining Creation (2008) — Contributor — 7 copies
Fielding and the Nature of the Novel (1968) 6 copies
The Epic Voice: (2002) — Contributor — 6 copies
Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel (1964) 5 copies
The New Salmagundi Reader (1996) — Contributor — 3 copies
Ecclesiastes : A Translation with Commentary 3 copies
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai 2 copies
Putting together Biblical narrative (Albert T. Bilgray lecture) (1988) 2 copies
'Work, Not Sex, At Last' in NYRB 59/4, 8 March 2012 [review of Eng tr of Houellebecq's 'La Carte et le Territoire'] 2 copies
Beyond King James.(modern English translations of the Hebrew Bible) : An article from: Commentary 1 copy
Cabinet of the Muses: Essays on Classical and Comparative Literature in Honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer — Contributor — 1 copy
Daniel : A Translation with Commentary 1 copy
Psalms: Beauty and Poetic Structure 1 copy
A Life of Learning 1 copy
'All the Good Things of Spain' in Jewish Review of Books 2, Summer 2010 [review of Hillel Halkin's 'Yehuda Halevi'] 1 copy

Robert Alter (2)

Mulan Revelations #2 (2015) 1 copy
Mulan Revelations #3 (2015) 1 copy
Mulan Revelations #4 (2015) 1 copy
Mulan Revelations #1 (2015) 1 copy

Robert Alter (unknown)

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