Robert Alter - Shavuot 2024 - Study Guide and Resources - Translations and Much More - "The Ten Commandments of Translation?"
A Collection of over 60 Sefaria Sheets about Robert Alter's translations, books and articles
Robert Alter- Tisha B’Av 2024 - 300+ Days of Hamas War and Hostage Kidnapping - What Inspires Jews to Live as a Peoplehood ? - That is the Only Real Question.
ROBERT ALTER, 2024, Over 65 Sheets on Sefaria about Alter's Translations and the Bible's Literary Styles, its religious messages and how Alter's scholarship can be used today.
Robert Alter and the Art of Biblical Narrative
examines type-scenes in the Bible and how they tell a story and how they show what the Bible says about life, God and meaning.
Robert Alter - Israel At War - Yom Kippur of October 7th 2024 - Book of Jonah: "And Shall I Not Have Pity"? - Pity for the World vs Pity for Israel and the Jews? - Shall Jews Have Pity for Each Other vs Sinat Chinam? - Learning Dor L'Dor, By Generations, Jews and Bible
Robert Alter - How can Alter Translate "Snippets of ...Very Ancient Hebrew Poems" in Parshat Chukat - First Step, Acknowledge They Exist - Reading Alter's Introduction To Numbers - The October 7th War Against Hamas Nine Months Later
Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Shelach - Shi'lach - Spies and Internal Causeless Hatred - Military Leaders vs Tribal Chieftains - Alter: Translation Requires Notes or Commentary - Landes: A Warning about Hamas - Hostages and the IDF Combat Soldiers after 260+ Days
Robert Alter - 2003 Alter's New Book: A Writing Life - The Bible is "Religiously Impelled Texts" AND is Literature - Teaching the Bible Today - After October 7th, How can Can Believers and Non-Pious Jews Read the Bible Together? Bible as literature and religious messages
Robert Alter's many essay Introductions challenge learning by Parshat HaShavua or by chapters. The Introduction to the Book of Exodus explains the Golden Calf, legalism as pageantry, the Tabernacle and the shift in literary style to folkloric vs realism in Genesis.
Robert Alter sheets on Sefaria by Michael Scher. Here is a list with links and categories to add finding information on Alter's point of view and his scholarship. See links to lectures by Alter.
Robert Alter - Love, War, Sadness and Poetry - Yehuda Amichai At 100 - " Witty Enlistment of the Quotidian" - War Against Hamas and to Rescue the Hostages in Gaza Days 230+
Robert Alter -Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 - Yehuda Amichai Poems - Can Remembering The Holocaust Help Us Cope with Great Sadness and Fears? The Vale of Death's Shadow: After October 7th - tWar with Hamas and Iran and Desperate Worry for the Hostages? Poetry helps.