News and Events

Professor Robert Alter
Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of
Hebrew and Comparative Literature
at the University of California at Berkeley
Olin, Room 102  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
and
How to Read Biblical Narrative
2:30pm, May 1, 2022
Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York CityProfessor Robert Alter has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present, on  American fiction, and on modern Hebrew literature.   He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible.  His twenty-eight published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses. Among his publications over the past thirty years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (1991),  Canon and Creativity (2000), The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004), Imagined Cities  (2005),  The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007), Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010),The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010), The Art of Bible Translation (2019), and Nabokov and the Real World 2021).  His completed translation of the Hebrew Bible with a commentary was published in 2018 in a three-volume set. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.   He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University. Professor Alter is Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger

 

  Arendt Center  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
There is an ancient Jewish practice of studying a specific Biblical portion, known as the parsha, each week. We're re-inaugurating the Bard parsha circle, open to everyone (though especially, students) of all religious backgrounds, and meeting weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the HAC seminar room. As a group, we’ll wrestle with the familiar-foreign biblical text, using Robert Alter’s new (and exquisite) translation. Snacks will be provided! With Shai Secunda and Joshua Boettiger