Name Adele Berlin | ||
Education University of Pennsylvania (1976) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship Books The dynamics of biblical, Poetics and interpreta, Lamentations: A Commentary Similar People Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane, Robert Alter, Jeremiah | ||
Biblican Interpretation: Between Classical and Postmodern
Adele Berlin is a biblical scholar. 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 (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 is forthcoming.
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 the subject 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.