The following are videos of lectures given by Robert Alter on translation of the Bible.
1. ‘Translating Biblical Poetry: Ancient Hebrew Verse and the Constraints of English’ (University of California, September 19, 2014)
2. ‘The Pleasure & Perils of Translating the Bible’ (University of California, March 26, 2012)
3. ‘Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Translating the Bible’ (Villanova University, September 15, 2008)
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