Editing Robert Alter (section)

==Selected works==
;Translations of the Hebrew Bible
* ''The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel'', 1999, [[W.W. Norton]], {{ISBN|0-393-32077-4}}
* ''The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary'', 2004, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-01955-1}}
* ''The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary'', 2007, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|978-0-393-06226-7}}
* ''The Book of Genesis'', translation by Robert Alter, illustrated by [[Robert Crumb|R. Crumb]], 2009, W.W. Norton (first edition, 1996), {{ISBN|0-393-06102-7}}
* ''The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary'', 2010, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-06812-9}}
* ''Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary'', 2013, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-08269-5}}
* ''Strong As Death Is Love: Song of Songs Ruth Esther Jonah And Daniel: A Translation with Commentary'', 2015, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-24304-4}}
* ''[[The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary]]'', 2018, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-29249-5}}

;Other works
* ''Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel'', 1965, Harvard University Press
*''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b7jX29_p-5IC Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre]'', 1975, University of California Press, {{ISBN|0-520-02755-8}}
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674535756 ''A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal''], in collaboration with Carol Cosman, 1979, Basic Books, {{ISBN|0-465-04124-8}}
* ''[[The Art of Biblical Narrative]]'', 1981, [[Basic Books]], {{ISBN|0-465-00427-X}}
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674587625 ''Motives for Fiction''], 1984, [[Harvard University Press]], {{ISBN|978-0-674-58762-5}}
* ''The Art of Biblical Poetry'', 1985, Basic Books, {{ISBN|0-465-00431-8}}
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674875319 ''The Literary Guide to the Bible''] Edited by Alter and [[Frank Kermode]], 1987, Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-87531-9}}
* ''The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language Revolution'', 1988, University of Washington Press.
* ''Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age'', 1990, W.W. Norton, {{ISBN|0-393-31499-5}}
* [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674606630 ''Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem''], 1991, Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-674-60663-0}}
* ''Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel'', 2005, Yale University Press, {{ISBN|0-300-10802-8}}
* ''Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible'', 2010, [[Princeton University Press]], {{ISBN|0-691-12881-2}}
* ''The Art of Bible Translation'', 2019, Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|978-0691181493}}
* ''Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense'', 2021, [[Princeton University Press]], {{ISBN|0-691-21193-0}}
* ''[[Amos Oz]]: Writer, Activist, Icon'', 2023, Yale University Press, {{ISBN|0-300-25017-7}}