Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American

biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament).''Introduction to Biblical Studies, Second Edition'' by Steve Moyise (Oct 27, 2004) pages 11–12 Fo ...

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

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, 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

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. Along with

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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

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and Oxford University Press book, ''The Jewish Study Bible''. A decade later the two editors offered its second edition.

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Articles by Adele Berlin
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