Adele Berlin
American biblical scholar
About Adele Berlin
Born 1943. Adele Berlin is an American biblical scholar, scholar of the Bible as literature, bible translator, university teacher, exegete and judaic scholar.
Adele Berlin is an American biblical scholar and Hebraist. Before her retirement, she was Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland.
Berlin is best known for 1994 work Poetics and interpretation of biblical narrative . She has also written commentaries on Song of Songs, 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. 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. A decade later the two editors offered its second edition.
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[Jeffrey Tigay], and Adele Berlin, eds. The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization. Vol. 1, Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. (Content available free digitally at posenlibrary.com)
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Who is Adele Berlin?
American biblical scholar
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Adele Berlin was born on 23 May 1943 in Philadelphia.
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Adele Berlin is a biblical scholar, scholar of the Bible as literature, bible translator, university teacher, exegete and judaic scholar.
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Adele Berlin is American.
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