5. The Bible as Literature | Dr. Robert Alter

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas · Jun 1, 2023 · 1h 17m

In this episode J.J. and Dr. Alter explore the literary approach to the Bible, Dr. Alter's magnificent translation, and the impact of both of these works on the study of Bible in the university and the yeshiva. Also typescenes and how Dr. Alter met his wife at a modern-day well.

Robert 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. He is a

member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the…