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Robert Alter - Song of Songs - Passover - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - "Wondrous" - "Delicate Yet Frank Sensuality Celebration of Young Love" - The Art of Biblical Poetry - Shabbas Pesach - 200+ days for Hostages and the IDF in the War Against Hamas and Iran - Am Yisrael Chai
1173 Views•April 26, 2024•Marriage ,Art of Biblical Poetry,Literary Style,Passover,Iran,Wine,Shabbas,Poetry,Love,KIsses,Gaza,Hostages,Shabbat,Erotic,Ancient,Pesach,Robert Alter,War,Bible
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"Amalek - In all its Glory" - Robert Alter's Translation of Key Verse Devarim 25:19 - Collection of Sheets on Robert Alter's Translations, Notes and Essays
95 Views•March 26, 2025•Robert Alter•Translations,Sinat Hinom, the Art of Bible Translation,Devarim 25:19,Purim,IDF,Bibas Family,Robet Alter,Glorifying Amaleck,Hostages,Nazi,Hitler,Pesach,Hamas,Amalek,Zachor,Blot Out,Wipe Out
Save "Sheet 636045"
Robert Alter - 2024 - There is a "Collection" on Sefaria of Sheets concerning Alter's Translations, the Bible's Literary Style, Type Scenes, Poetry vs Narrative Prose - Alter's Introductions to Bible and Notes on Translations - Parsha- Parshat HaShavua - War in Gaza and Hostages after over 300 Days
390 Views•March 17, 2024•Robert Alter•Literature,Robert Alter,Parsha,Type Scenes,Prose,Poetry,Hostages,Michael Scher,Translations,MS Sefaria Sheet Collection,Bible Style,Israeli,Hamas,Parshat Hashavua
Save "Sheet 552386"
Purim 2025- "Remembering Amalek" at the UN - We Do Not Forget, We Remember What Hamas Is
103 Views•March 13, 2025•Robert Alter•Fraud,Robert Alter,Remembrance,UN,Purim,Deception,Amalek,Zachor,Remember,Genocide,United Nations
Save "Sheet 633017"
Robert Alter - Purim - Parshat Zachor - Do Not Glorify Amalek - The Bibas Family Tragedy
214 Views•March 8, 2025•Amaleck,Hamas ,Horror,Zachor,Purim,Parshat Zachor,Ruthless,Bible's Literary Integrity,Fraud,Nazi,Bible,Deception,Bibas,Robert Alter,Daniel Gordis,Do Not Glorify Hamas,Hostages
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Purim 2025 - Amalek - "Remembering Amalek" Is Wrong - Why?
145 Views•March 12, 2025•Robert Alter•Remembering,Purim 2025,Zachor,Amaleck
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Robert Alter - Parshat Zachor - Purim - What Amalek Stands for? Fraud and Deception leading to Brutality? We Await the Return of all of the October 7th Hostages and of the IDF soldiers Winning the War against Hamas. Major John Spencer on Urban Tunnel Warfare.
1063 Views•March 21, 2024•Robert Alter•Fraud,Hostages,Robert Alter,October 7th,IDF,Palestinian Self Deception,Purim,Self-Defense,Military ,Remberance,Translation,Fraud and Deception,Hamas,War With Amalek,Parshat Zachor
Save "Sheet 553547"
Sefaria - The Robert Alter Collection of Sheets - See the link below: Dozens of Sheets on Alter's methods - Translations of all of Tanach; Interpretation of verses or phrases in Notes or in each Parshat Hashavua; Explanations in Introductory essays (28+) and links to his many Lectures. The Sefaria Alter Collection introduces Alter's unique understanding of the Bible's literary style, type scenes, religious messages and how it is a literature, as well.
700 Views•March 19, 2024•Robert Alter•Literature,Oz,Collection,Lectures,Religion,Style,Robert Alter,Parshat Hashavua,Translation,Divine,Michael Scher,Sheets,Zionism,Type Scenes
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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 Pass Along The Bible: Sefaria's Digital Sources and Animations
254 Views•October 8, 2024•Robert Alter•Yom Kippur,Gordis,Hanan Harchol,Teshuvah,Gaza,Forgiveness (מחילה),Apology,Jewish Food for Thought,Sefaria,Podcast,Translation,Traditions,Rabbi Sacks,Israel,Repair,Animations,Rabbi Soloveitchik,Jonah,Digital,Pity,Sinat VChinam,Robert Alter,War
Save "Sheet 595941"
Robert Alter- Tisha B’Av 2024 in the Shadow of October 7th 2023 - Lamentations - Eicha- 310+ Days of Hamas/Iran War and Hostage Kidnapping - From Alter's Comments: What is the "Sustaining Belief" that Inspires Jews to Live as a Zionist Nation, a Peoplehood, Come What May ?
706 Views•November 16, 2022•Robert Alter•Amichai,Robert Alter,Zionism,Rabbi Saks,Tisha B'Av,Peoplehood,Poetry,Nationhood,Zionist,Hamas War,Sinat Chinam,Baseless Hatred,Bearing Witness,Horrors,Literature,Daniel Gordis,Archives,2024,Hostages,Resilience,IDF,Iran,Hope
Save "Sheet 446683"
Robert Alter - Shavuot 2024 - Study Guide and Resources - Translations and Much More - "The Ten Commandments of Translation?" - Return of Hostages and War Against Hamas - Day 249+ - Operation Arnon
908 Views•June 8, 2024•Robert Alter•Notes,Arnon,Resources for Study,Essays,Literature,Bible,Ten Commandments,Hostage,Robert Alter,Translation,Rescue,Shavout
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Robert Alter - Yehuda Amichai - Israel's National Poet - Living with Poems in Times of "Continuing Warfare": Before the Holocaust, Israel Reborn1948-49, and Military Self Defense in Wars 1949 - 2024
1100 Views•May 2, 2024•Theological,Poetry,Yehudah Amchai,Zicharon,Comfort,Robert Alter,Literary Style,Erotic,MemorialDay
Save "Sheet 562061"
URGENT - Updated July 31, 2023: The Ongoing Crisis in Israel Is Real - Tisha B'Av 2023 - Sinat Chinam -Torah and Democracy - Robert Alter and Daniel Gordis -"The Ghost of Destruction Still Haunted the Land"
1199 Views•July 31, 2023•Robert Alter•Judicial Reform,Existential Danger to Israel,Baseless Hatred,Democracy,Protest,Israel in Crisis,Israel From the Inside,Third Temple,Daniel Gordis,Democracy and Torah,Tisha B'Av,Robert Alter
Save "Sheet 502637"
Robert Alter - Parshat Balak - Bad Mistakes in Translations: What Are They, Why Are They Bad and What Do Goldilocks and Type Scenes have to do with it? - War Against Hamas After 280+ Days
592 Views•July 15, 2024•Robert Alter•Book of Balaam,Hostages, Balak,Parshat Hashavua,Balaam,Pigs,Robert Alter,Pork,War,Hamas,Parshat ,Stroytelling,Bible,Goldilocks,Numbers,Literary Style,Deir Allah ,Literature,Parsha,Literary Devices,Ancient,Type Scene,Translation,Poems
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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
673 Views•July 11, 2024•Robert Alter•IDF,Literary Devices,Robert Alter,Chukat,Hostages,Translation,Hamas,Parashat Chukat,War,Parashat,Bible,Literature,Poems
Save "Sheet 577760"
Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Shelach - Spies and Internal Causeless Hatred - Military Leaders vs Tribal Chieftains - Alter: Translation Requires Notes or Commentary - Landes: A Warning about War, for Our Times? - Hostages and the IDF Combat Soldiers after 263+ Days of War Against Hamas
552 Views•June 24, 2024•Robert Alter•Parashat Shelach,Literature,Robert Alter,Military,Hostages,Bible,Hatred,Daniel Gordis,Tribes,Parshat Hashavua,Spies,Richard Landes,Translation ,Hamas,Notes,Inside Israel,Sinat Hinam
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Robert Alter - 2023 Alter's New Book: "A Writing Life" - The Art of Biblical Narrative: Celebrating 42 Years in Print - 260+ Days of War Against Hamas, the IDF Carries On
1311 Views•June 18, 2024•Bible,War,Writng,Literature,Gaza,Once Upon a Time,Western Literature,Hamas,Religion,Religous Messages,Creativity,Storytelling,Robert Alter,Art of Biblical Narrative
Save "Sheet 573992"
Robert Alter is a Zionist - Israel at Age 76 - Yom HaAtzmaut - Ways to Love Israel
1706 Views•May 6, 2024•Robert Alter•Anti Zionism,Poetry,Land of Israel,Israel,Translation,Bible,Amos Oz,Hatred,Zionism,Rabbi Sacks,Yom HaAtzmaut
Save "Sheet 562847"
Robert Alter - Essay "Introduction to the Book of Exodus" Learning by Parshat HaShavua vs Reading Exodus by Themes and as a Whole
2173 Views•December 19, 2022•Robert Alter•Essay,Introduction to Genesis,Narrative,Tabernacle's Making,Genesis,Golden Calf,Literary,Robert Alter,Composite,Ten Comandmments,Five Books,Introducion to Exodus,Exodus,Moses,Sinai,Pashat HaShavua,Folklore,Collage
Save "Sheet 454420"
Links to Robert Alter Sheets on Sefaria - Parashat Hashavua In Process
943 Views•March 18, 2024•Robert Alter•Literature,Translation,Essays,Religion,Notes,Literary Style,Introduction,Rpbert Alter,Bible,Parshat Hashavua,Collections
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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+
1219 Views•May 24, 2024•Robert Alter•Gaza,Hamas,Women , Hope,Poetry,Chevra Kadisha,Death,Hostages,Sadness,War,Yehuda Amichai,King David,Art of Biblical Poetry,Aging,Love,Robert Alter
Save "Sheet 567055"
Robert Alter - The Hebrew Bible - Mistranslation of the Word "Nefesh" as Soul vs the Correct Translation "Life" - The War Against Hamas and for Rescue of the Hostages Over Three Months
1482 Views•May 8, 2024•Robert Alter•Art of Translation,War With Amalek,Psalm 23,Life,Translation,Gaza,IDF,Poetry,Robert Alter,King James,Professor Davis,Hostages,Hamas,Gaza War,Soul
Save "Sheet 563434"
Robert Alter - In His Own Words: Understanding Alter from His Lectures
2799 Views•March 15, 2023•Literature,Bible,Interviews,Lectures,Alter's Life,Alter's Methods,Literary Style,Podcast,Unified,Robert Alter
Save "Sheet 474094"
Robert Alter - Trump's Knock Off Bible - Trump as Huckster and Showman - Yet Again Exploiting the Hebrew Bible
1063 Views•March 30, 2024•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Biblical Values,Hostages,Nationalism,Fraud,Gaza,King James,Evangelical,Trump,Bible,Literature,Literary Style,Supersession,New Testament,Hamas
Save "Sheet 555352"
Robert Alter -Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 - In Israel, Poetry is Sustenance - Yehuda Amichai Poems - Can Remembering The Holocaust Help Us Cope with Great Sadness and Fears? Psalm 23: The Vale of Death's Shadow: After October 7th - the Ongoing War with Hamas and Iran and Desperate Worry for the Hostages?
1109 Views•May 4, 2024•Robert Alter•Fear,Hostages,Daniel Gordis,Sadness,Poetry Matters,War With Amalek,Rememberance,Erotic,Poetry,War,Prayer and Poetry,Gordis,Yehudah Amichai,Robert Satloff,Hamas,Holocaust ,Midrash,Robert Alter
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Baseless Hatred - Consolation or Anguish - Crisis in Israel and in Jewish Peoplehood - From Tisha B'Av to Yom Kippur - August 6, 2023
1423 Views•August 6, 2023•Daniel Gordis,Sinat Chinam,2023,Tradition,Baseless Hatred,Israel,Seven Consolation,Consolation,Yom Kippur,Israel From the Inside,Rabbi Sacks
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Robert Alter - Purim - Book of Esther - Introduction to Ketuvim - Is Esther novel entertainment, or a call to action to stand up for Am Yisrael or both and more? How Bible texts evolve over 3,000+ years, inspiring. What Purim 2024 is for Dr. Dara Horn and Rabbi Lord Sacks? - Recalling October 7th - Day 167 of Jews held Hostage by Hamas and the IDF Soldiers Fight the War.
917 Views•March 20, 2024•Robert Alter•October 7th,Hostages,Rabbi Sacks,Dara Horn,Bible,Hamas,Purim,Genocide,Gaza,Am Yisrael,Robert Alter,October 7,War With Amalek,War,Tyrants,Esther,Isreal,Zachor,Annihilating the Memory of Amalek,Ketuvim
Save "Sheet 553268"
Robert Alter - Passover - Seder in the "Vale of Death's Shadow" - Comfort from Psalm 23 - Using Alter's Introduction and Notes on Passover in Exodus
972 Views•April 16, 2024•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Iran,Bible,Literature,Nationalism,Passover,Israel,Parshat Hashavua,Introduction,Gaza,Laws of Matzah,2024,Matzah,Literary Style,Hamas,War With Amalek,War,Haggadah,Psalm 23,Seder,Exodus
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Robert Alter - A Literary Approach to the Bible - Can the Bible, a Religious Text, be Literature like Dante's Divine Comedy and What Does Midrash say?
1823 Views•November 21, 2022•Unity of Text,Judah and Tamar,Robert Alter,Imagination,Revelation,Judah and Joseph,Meir Sternberg,Religion,Dante,Religious Docment,Divine,Literary,Dinah,Literature,Art Of,Midrash,Narrative,God and the Jewish People,Laconic
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Robert Alter: A Literary Reading of the Bible - Is The Divine Excluded? Listen to Alter's Explanation- A New Podcast: June 2023 - What Students Think of Alter?
1710 Views•June 22, 2023•Robert Alter•God,Bible as Literature,Robert Alter,Didactic Versus the Text,Divine,Religious,Literary Style,Misconceptions,Believers,Secular
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Parshat HaShavua - Robert Alter - Genesis - Introduction
1530 Views•October 28, 2022•Robert Alter•Introduction to Genesis,Source Amalysis,Ibn Ezra, Parshat HaShavua,Literature,Redactors,Robert Alter,Literary Reading,Rashi,Redacted Text
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Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Chukat-Balak - A Complicated Parsha, Yes, but Easier to Read with Context Alter provides in Introductory Essays and Notes - Can the Bible be "Quite Funny"?
1121 Views•June 29, 2023•Robert Alter•Chukat,Antiquity,Balak,Oracles,Balaam and Israel,Translation,Humor,Ancient,Essays,Parshat Hashavua,Donkey,Robert Alter,Notes,Funny,MS Sefaria Collection Robert Alter,Context
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Robert Alter - 191st Day of October 7th War in Gaza Against Hamas - Iran Attacking Israel - Parshat HaShavua - Tazria Metzora - Can We Find Meaning from the Parsha? Rabbi Lord Sacks' Shakespeare and Evil Slander of the Jewish Civilization - Reading Alter's Introductions and Notes about our Jewish Civilization
783 Views•April 13, 2024•Robert Alter•October 7,King David,Introductions,Pashat,Tazria,Alter,Hostages,Parshanut,Literature,Shakespeare,War With Amalek,Style,Story Telling,Bible ,War,Rabbi Sacks,Metzora,Prophets,Iran,Civilization
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Robert Alter - Leviticus - Parshat Shemini - Nadab and Abihu - Set Apart ("Hivdil") vs Casting Out the Jews from all Peoples? Ecstatic Orgy vs Jewish Rituals - Torah in the Shadow of October 7th, War Against Hamas and the Shocking Ecstasy of Killing Jews
588 Views•April 4, 2024•Robert Alter•Orgy,Creation,Hamas,Genocide,Robert Alter,War,Ocotber 7th
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Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Tzav 6:1-8:36 - Alter's Notes consistently explore Leviticus with surprising insights from Jewish civilization, such as why we still have an "eternal light" like a burning bush and an erotic poem by Moses ibn Ezra
158 Views•March 25, 2024•Robert Alter•Poem,Eternal Light,Erotic ,Parshat Hashavua,Bible Style,Moses Ibn Ezra,Sacrifices,Leviticus,Tzav,Robert Alter
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Robert Alter - Selected Resources and References
1421 Views•November 1, 2022•Robert Alter•Hebrew Bible,Redacted,Type Scenes,Literary,Translation,Literature,Parshat,Robert Alter,Introductions,Essays
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Robert Alter - Parashat HaShavuah: Pekudei - Exodus 38:21-40:38 - Is building the Tabernacle boring? - "Not a Story But Pageantry - As Beautiful as Creation or a Classical Symphony?"
504 Views•March 16, 2024•Robert Alter•Story,Tabernacle's Making,Robert Alter,Exodus,Creation,Parshat Hashavua,Pageantry
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Robert Alter - Sukkot - Ecclesiastes - Qohelet - "Is Life like Herding the Winds, a Futility?" Beyond Alter's Landmark Translation, study in the Succah, Alter's Essay on the Meaning of Living per Qohelet
841 Views•September 29, 2023•Robert Alter•Ecclesiastes ,Sukkah,Bible,Qohelet,Succos,Translation,Meaning of Life,Vanity,Robert Alter,Futility,Herding the Wind,Canon
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Robert Alter - Parsha Mattos - Shall We Kill the Children in a War? What Commandments Shall We Follow Today? Are We Asking the Right Questions to Create Jewish Peoplehood?
1502 Views•July 29, 2023•Crimes,War,Numbers,Shakespeare,Mattos,Genocide,Parsha,National History,Masei,Humanism,Steven Pinker,Parshat Hashavua,Jewish Peoplehood
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Is the Parsha called "Judges" -Shoftim - a Good Guide to the Supreme Court Crisis in Israel? Reading the Bible per Robert Alter
747 Views•August 14, 2023•Robert Alter•Judges,Israel,Supreme Court,Robert Alter,Sinat Chinam,Baseless Hatred
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Robert Alter - Metaphors "Upward Displacement of a Genital Image" - Parshat HaShavua - Exodus Vaera 6:2-9:35
964 Views•January 9, 2023•Robert Alter•Lips,Bridegroom,Genital Image,“resumptive Repetition”,Essay,Metaphor,Parshat Hashavua,Blood,Vieira,Circumcision,Robert Alter,Introduction,Exodus
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Robert Alter - Parshat Vayakhel Exodus 35:1-38:20 - Alter's Correct Translation of One Word Upholds Women, Their Mirrors and Love of Their Husbands - and Rashi's Affections
1357 Views•March 13, 2023•Robert Alter•Literary Techniques,Copper,Husbands,Love,Service,Robert Alter,Flocked,Mistranslation,Rashi,Bible,Wifes,Translation,Mirrors,Tent,Bronze
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Robert Alter - Parshat Hashavua Mikeitz - Bible's "Composite Artistry"
1198 Views•November 30, 2022•Robert Alter•Fate,Elohim,God's Plan,Robert Alter,Montage,Source Criticism,God,Composite Artistry,Introduction to Genesis,Narrative,Jacob,Silver,Redacted Text,Joseph in Egypt,Film,Parshat Mikeitz,Duplication
Save "Sheet 449774"
MS Contact Information
448 Views•December 25, 2022•Robert Alter•Collection,Robert Alter,Sheets
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Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Vayigash Genesis 44:18-47:27 - Is this Real Life or Just a Story?
1031 Views•November 27, 2022•Robert Alter•Evil,Favoritism,Parshat Hashavua,Moral Choices,Jacob,Robert Alter,Vayigash,Judah and Joseph,Divine,Happiness,Filial,Narration,Fate,Kohelet,Love
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Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua VaYislach 32:4-36:43 "Like a whore shall our sister be treated ?"
915 Views•November 19, 2022•Robert Alter•Levi,Soul,Dante,Laconic,Midrash,Meir Sternberg,Shechem,Robert Alter,Art Of,Redacted Text,Literary,Rape,Translation,Simeon,Whore,Nefesh,Allusion,Dinah
Save "Sheet 447495"
Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua Genesis Vayeitzei 28:10-32:3 - Focus: Literary Style in the Bible
913 Views•November 16, 2022•Robert Alter•Annunciation,Sefer,Novel,Betrothal,Vayeitzei,Literary Style,Eyes,Art Of,Translation,Redacted Text,Literature,Rakh,Leah,Type Scene,Robert Alter,Word Choice,Modernity
Save "Sheet 446823"
Parshat HaShavua - Toldot Genesis 25:19 - 28:9 - Robert Alter
1139 Views•November 5, 2022•Robert Alter• Vernacular Hebrew,Yizhak,Translation,Jacob,Bless Me,Esav,Art of Bible,King James,Art of Translation,Isaac and Esau,Literature,Text
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Parshat HaShavua Lech Lecha Genesis 12:1- 17:27 - Robert Alter
1195 Views•October 30, 2022•Robert Alter•Holocaut,Simile,Poet,Yiddish Book Center,Parshat Hashavua,Literary Composition,Robert Alter,Literary Collage,Lech Lecha,Redacted Text,Biblical Narrative,Literary Sources,Literature,Verset,Type Scene,Interior Monologue,Line of Verse,Yakov Glatstein,Yiddish
Save "Sheet 441985"
Parshat HaShavua Vayeira Genesis 18:1- 22:24 - Robert Alter
1073 Views•October 31, 2022•Robert Alter•Sarah,Nachmanides, Genesis,Delayed Narrative,Robert Alter,Sister Wife Story,Chapter Breaks,Infertility,Ramban,Parshat Hashavua
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Robert Alter - Leviticus - Parshat Hashavua Vayikra - Is there any "literary coherence" amidst all of the legalisms? Is Leviticus too weird for us?
930 Views•March 17, 2024•Robert Alter•Vayikra,Parshat Hashavua,Orgy,Bible,Leviticus,Essay,Literature,Legalism,Style,Robert Alter
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Robert Alter - How the Bible Tells a Story - What is a Literary Type-Scene? Just Artful or Do They Matter?
4141 Views•November 9, 2022•Robert Alter•Betrothal,Abraham and Sarah,Hagar,Type-Scene,Genesis,Literary,Narrative Texts,Sampson,Judah and Tamar,Book of Ruth,Joseph and Potiphar's Wife,Type Scene,Jacob and Rachel,Art Of,Story,Sources,Narrative,David and Saul,Robert Alter,Moses and Zipporah
Save "Sheet 444704"
Robert Alter - Art of Biblical Narrative - 2011
2151 Views•November 7, 2022•Robert Alter•Narration,Literary Approach,Type Scenes,Hebrew Bible,Sacred History,Bble Poetry,Prose Fiction,Bible,Parshat Hashavua,Dialog
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Robert Alter - Essay Introductions - How to Read Alter's Bible?
2085 Views•January 4, 2023•Robert Alter•Genesis,Parshat Shemot,Literary,Bible,Five Books,Essay,Translation,Reading Alter,Alter,Ketuvim,Introduction,Exodus,Robert,Literature
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Israel is in Grave Danger - August 2, 2023 - Baseless Hatred - Tisha B'Av and Risks of Destruction - Shocking Warning from David Horowitz
596 Views•August 2, 2023•Sinat Chinam,Supreme Court,Crisis,Baseless Hatred,David Horowitz,Democracy,Emergency,Israel,Times of Israel,Robert Alter,Tisha B'Av,Warning,Daniel Gordis
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Robert Alter - UPDATE July 24, 2023 - Is Compromise Mandated by Tradition or Not? Tisha B'av Reflections - Baseless Hatred - Jewish Peoplehood - Israel vs Democracy? - Daniel Gordis: Israel From The Inside
835 Views•July 24, 2023•Robert Alter•Baseless Hatred,Sinat Chinam,Robert Alter,Lamentations,Israel,Eicha,Daniel Gordis,Rabbi Sacks,Supreme Court,Democracy,Tisha B'Av
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Robert Alter - Tisha B'av - Baseless Hatred - Jewish Peoplehood - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks - Israel vs Democracy?
808 Views•July 24, 2023•Robert Alter - Tisha B'Av - Jewish Peoplehood - Baseless Hatred - Sinat Hinam - Rabbi Sacks Principles of Jewish Peoplehood
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Robert Alter - Literature vs Dogma?
761 Views•June 24, 2023•The Nile River,Noah and the Ark,Mt Sinai,Divine,Poets,Water,Shemot 3:1,Horeb,Nile,Didactic,Parshat Shemot,Dogma,Ibn Ezra,Narrative,Vayechi,Bible as Literature,Robert Alter,God,Parshat Hashavua
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Robert Alter - The Art of Bible Translation 2019
1175 Views•November 2, 2022•Robert Alter•Syntax,Word Play,Art of Bible Translation,Translation,Robert Alter,King James,Dialog,Rhythm,Word Choice,King James ,Literary,Literature,Sound Play
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Robert Alter and Hillel Halkin - "The Robert Alter Version"
1117 Views•November 26, 2022•Robert Alter•Text,Style,Commentary,Stupendous,Notes,The Ten Plagues,Robert Alter,Faithless,Faith,Literature,King James,Religious,Hillel Halkin,Bible
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Parshat Noah Genesis 6:9-11:32, Robert Alter
1460 Views•October 28, 2022•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Genesis,Translation,Cycle of Seasons,Poetics,Narrative,Parshat Noah,Redacted Text,Rashi,Literature
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Robert Alter - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: Translations - Literary Style - Type Scenes
1232 Views•November 24, 2022•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Type Scene,Judah and Tamar,Literary,Bible as Literature,Famous Rashi,Mikeitz,Joseph and His Brothers,Isaac and Esau,Rabbi Sacks
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Robert Alter - "The Creation" - What is the Artwork on Alter's Hebrew Bible Covers?
1303 Views•January 7, 2023•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Art,Ayin,Genesis,Israel,Bezalel,Mordecai Ardon,Israel Prize,Creation,Bauhaus,Bible
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Robert Alter: Modern Hebrew Literature and "Reading Genesis as a Book"
1478 Views•February 15, 2023•Robert Alter•Robert Alter,Genesis as a Book,Literature,KJB,Yiddish,Hebrew Literature,Genesis,Literary Style,Literature
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“A Bridegroom of Blood"- Robert Alter's Essay in a Note - Parshat HaShavua Shemot, Exodus 4:24-26
1196 Views•January 7, 2023•Robert Alter•Moses,Moses and Zipporah,Bible,Exodus,Foreskin,Bridegroom of Blood,Robert Alter,Shemot,Bridegroom,Flint,Mythic,Archaic,Literary Style,Hero,Folktale,Human Sacrifice
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Robert Alter - Hanukah and Parshat HaShavua VaYechi Gen 49:10 - Gen 50:26 - Allusions - Literary Light
1404 Views•December 7, 2022•Adam Kirsch,Vayechi,Judah,Translation,Updike,Jesus,Joseph,Sefaria Sheets,Literature,Hanukah,Notes,Parshat Hashavua,Jacob,Robert Alter,The Messianic Era,Ark,Hillel Halkin,Tevah
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Parshat HaShavua Chayei Sarah Genesis 23:1- 25:18 Robert Alter
700 Views•November 4, 2022•Robert Alter•Art of Narration,Type Scene,Sarah,Mother,Robert Alter,Betrothal Tale,Tent of Sarah,End of Abraham Life,Translation,Isaac,Literature,Art of Translation
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Robert Alter - Parshat HaShavua - Vayeishev Genesis 37:1- 40:23 - Is the Story of Tamar Jammed into the Wrong Place? Is it of the Divine? How should We Know?
992 Views•November 10, 2022•Jacob,Sons,Parshat Hashavua,Divine,Joseph,Frame-Narrative,Literature,Literary Syle,Judah and Tamar,Art Of,Tamar,Parshat Vayeshev,Bereishit Rabba,Robert Alter,Midrash,Interpolation, Biblical Narrative
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Robert Alter: Does the Bible have a "literary style" and Does it Matter? An introduction...
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Robert Alter - The Art of Biblical Poetry - Isaiah - Calling Out Tyrants Then and Now - Poems of Mockery and Satire
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"The Literary Guide to the Bible" 1987 Edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode
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