Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Lecture in the Humanities

  • February 26, 2020
  • 4:00 PM CST
  • Information Commons, fourth floor lecture hall
  • Ian Cornelius, icornelius@luc.edu
  • Free
  • Not open to the public.
  • https://www.luc.edu/english/stories/archive/altersurtzlecture.shtml
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    Students and faculty are invited to the 44th Annual Edward L. Surtz, S.J. Lecture in the Humanities, to be delivered by Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Alter is author of more than 20 books of criticism, translation, and commentary, most recently The Art of Bible Translation (2019). His complete translation of the Hebrew Bible, a work 24 years in the making, was published by W.W. Norton in 2018 and has been acclaimed as stylistically faithful to the Hebrew while inventively artful in English. Alter has also written extensively on the European novel, contemporary American fiction, and modern Hebrew literature. His lecture is co-sponsored by the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology, and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage.