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.Jewish Book Council. National Jewish Book Awards Retrieved February 2017. A decade later the two editors offered its second edition.
Works Multiple works published:-
Books
[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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External links Articles by Adele Berlin