Sun Sentinel

Sami Rohr Prize goes to Hebrew-language author and translator

For the first time, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was given to the author of a book in Hebrew and its translator, in a sign of the award organization’s desire to expand the prize to ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Robert Alter completes his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...
The Christian Century

Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

In a first, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature goes to Hebrew-language author and translator

“It was important to expand the reach of the prize, and concomitantly and consequentially the reach of these books,” said the prize organization’s director. (JTA) — For the first time, the Sami Rohr ...