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Adele Berlin

Adele Berlin
Born (1943-05-23) May 23, 1943 (age 81)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
OccupationBiblical scholar
Known forLiterary approach to the Bible
TitleRobert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies
Board member ofPast President of the Society of Biblical Literature, Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gratz College
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
ThesisEnmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna, A Sumerian Narrative Poem (1976)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland
Main interestsBiblical narrative and poetry, and the interpretation of the Bible

Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American biblical scholar and Hebraist. Before her retirement, she was Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland.[1]

Berlin is best known for 1994 work Poetics and interpretation of biblical narrative (ISBN 1575060027). She has also written commentaries on Zephaniah, Esther, and Lamentations. A Festschrift in her honor, "Built by Wisdom, Established by Understanding": Essays in Honor of Adele Berlin, was published in 2013.

Berlin has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and President of the Society of Biblical Literature. Along with Robert Alter and Meir Sternberg, Berlin is one of the most prominent practitioners of a literary approach to the Bible.[2][3][4] In 2004, the Jewish Book Council awarded Berlin along with co-editor Marc Zvi Brettler the scholarship category award for the Jewish Publication Society and Oxford University Press book, The Jewish Study Bible.[5] A decade later the two editors offered its second edition.

  1. ^ "Adele Berlin". University of Maryland. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  2. ^ Herzberg, Walter (1998). "Traditional Commentators Anticipating a Modern Literary Approach". Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon. Continuum. p. 517. ISBN 978-0-567-51855-2.
  3. ^ Crenshaw, James L. (2004). "Foreword". The Psalms In Israel's Worship. Eerdmans. p. xxx. ISBN 978-0-8028-2816-3.
  4. ^ Nicholson, Sarah (2002). Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. Continuum. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-567-00943-2.
  5. ^ Jewish Book Council. National Jewish Book Awards Archived 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 2017.

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