Adele Berlin

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ISBN 1575060027). 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. [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.[ citation needed ]

Works

Multiple works published:- [6]

Books

  • Berlin, Adele (1979). Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna, A Sumerian Narrative Poem. Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund. Vol. 2. Philadelphia, PA: The University Museum. ISBN   9780934718295. OCLC   6090804.
  • ——— (1983). Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative. Bible and literature series. Vol. 9. Sheffield, UK: Almond Press. ISBN   9780907459231. OCLC   10214708.
  • ——— (1985). The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN   9780253318503. OCLC   924981288.
  • ——— (1991). Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes. Indiana studies in biblical literature. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN   9780585106120. OCLC   43475924.
  • ——— (1994). Zephaniah: a new translation with introduction and commentary. Anchor Bible. Vol. 25A. New York: Doubleday. ISBN   9780385266314. OCLC   28928604.
  • ——— (2001). Esther: the traditional Hebrew text with the new JPS translation. JPS Bible Commentary. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society. ISBN   9780827606999. OCLC   44669511.
  • ——— (2001). Esther. Miḳra le-Yiśraʼel Commentary. Tel Aviv: Am Oved. ISBN   9789651313257. OCLC   48838494.
  • ——— (2002). Lamentations: A Commentary. Old Testament library. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN   9780664218492. OCLC   49892430.
  • ——— (2023). The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120–150. Jewish Publication Society. ISBN   9780827609402.

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References

  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.
  6. ↑ "Adele Berlin - CurriculumVitae" . Retrieved March 5, 2019.
Adele Berlin
Born (1943-05-23) May 23, 1943 (age 82)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation Biblical 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
Education University of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gratz College
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna, A Sumerian Narrative Poem (1976)
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