“The Challenge of Translating the Bible”
Professor Robert Alter, The University of California at Berkeley
Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published many acclaimed works on the Bible, literary modernism, and contemporary Hebrew literature, including The Art of Biblical Narrative, The Art of Biblical Poetry, and Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture. He has also published new translations of Biblical texts includingGenesis: Translation and Commentary (1996), The David Story: a Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel (2000), and The Five Books of Moses: a Translation with Commentary (2004).
This event was co-sponsored by the Humanities Foundation, the Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts, the University Professors, and the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.