Adele Berlin
Adele Berlin | |
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| Born | May 23, 1943 University of Maryland |
| Main interests | Biblical narrative and poetry, and the interpretation of the Bible |
Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in
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.
Works
Multiple works published:-[6]
Books
- Berlin, Adele (1979). OCLC 6090804.
- ——— (1983). Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative. Bible and literature series. Vol. 9. Sheffield, UK: Almond Press. OCLC 10214708.
- ——— (1985). The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. OCLC 924981288.
- ——— (1991). Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes. Indiana studies in biblical literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. OCLC 43475924.
- ——— (1994). Zephaniah: a new translation with introduction and commentary. OCLC 28928604.
- ——— (2001). Esther: the traditional Hebrew text with the new JPS translation. JPS Bible Commentary. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society. OCLC 44669511.
- ——— (2001). Esther. Miḳra le-Yiśraʼel Commentary. Tel Aviv: Am Oved. OCLC 48838494.
- ——— (2002). Lamentations: A Commentary. Old Testament library. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. OCLC 49892430.
Edited by
- ———; OCLC 892869165.
References
- University of Maryland. Archived from the originalon 4 November 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ 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.
- Eerdmans. p. xxx.
- ^ Nicholson, Sarah (2002). Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. Continuum. p. 13.
- ^ Jewish Book Council. National Jewish Book Awards Archived 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved February 2017.
- ^ "Adele Berlin - CurriculumVitae". Retrieved March 5, 2019.
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