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2003
Haskell Lectures at Oberlin College
Biblical
Style--
I
8 p.m., Sun., April 6:
"Rhetoric in Deuteronomy"
King 106
10 N. Professor St.
II
8 p.m., Mon., April 7:
"Narrative Prose"
Craig Lecture Hall,
Science Center,
130 W. Lorain St.
III
4:30 p.m., Wed., April 9:
"The Poetry of Job"
King 106
10 N. Professor St.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by The Haskell Lecture Series Committee
NOTED BIBLICAL SCHOLAR TO DELIVER HASKELL LECTURES AT OBERLIN COLLEGE
MARCH 27, 2003--Robert Alter, one of today’s foremost commentators on the Bible as literature, will deliver Oberlin College's annual Haskell Lectures April 6, 7 and 9. Biblical Style is the title of this year's series, which is free and open to the public.
Alter has written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible, and his work positions him as a critic who has "given new rigour and seriousness to the 'Bible as literature' movement," says the London Review of Books.
The speaker is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. His books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry, The Art of Biblical Narrative and The Art of Biblical Poetry, and the award-winning Genesis: Translation and Commentary.
Alter also has written The Literary Guide to the Bible (editor, with Frank Kermode); and most recently Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture.
In addition, he has written widely on the European novel from the 18th-century to the present, on contemporary American fiction, and on modern Hebrew fiction and devoted book-length studies to Fielding, Stendhal and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel, among them The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age and Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem.
Alter is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, the past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including two Guggenheims and a career award for scholarship from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
The Haskell Lectureship is one of the most distinguished lectureships in the United States. Established in1899 by a generous bequest from the will of Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell to examine "Middle Eastern literature in its relation to the Bible and Christian teachings," it celebrates its 104th year at Oberlin this year.
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