Robert Alter: The Challenge of Translating the Bible
44th Annual Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Lecture in the Humanities Professor Alter is author of more than 20 books of criticism, translation, and commentary, most recently The Art of Bible Translation (2019). His complete translation of the Hebrew Bible, a work 24 years in the making, was published by W.W. Norton in 2018 and has been acclaimed as stylistically faithful to the Hebrew while inventively artful in English.