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Robert Alter

About the Author

Robert Alter is professor in the graduate school and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He is an award-winning translator of the Hebrew Bible, as well as the author of fifteen other books, including The Art of Biblical Poetry. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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