Marc Brettler (Marc Zvi Brettler) is an American

biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible, with ''Bible'' referring to the books of the canonical Hebrew Bible in mainstream Jewish usage and the Christian Bible including the can ...

, and the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. He earned his B.A., M.A., and PhD from

Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...

, where he was previously Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies. He researches biblical metaphors, the Bible and gender, biblical historical texts, the book of

Psalms The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament. The book is an anthology of B ...

, and the post-biblical reception of the Hebrew Bible, including in the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

. He is a co-founder of the website thetorah.com, which integrates critical and traditional methods of studying the Bible. In 2004, Brettler won the

National Jewish Book Award The Jewish Book Council (Hebrew: ), founded in 1943, is an American organization encouraging and contributing to Jewish literature. The goal of the council, as stated on its website, is "to promote the reading, writing and publishing of qual ...

for ''The Jewish Study Bible.''Korkmazsky, Marina (8 November 2004)
"NEJS profs. win Jewish book award"
. ''The Justice''.

Books

* ''The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently'', with

Amy-Jill Levine Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She works in biblical studies and is a self described "critic of anti ...

, San Francisco: HarperOne, 2020. * ''The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously'', with

Peter Enns Peter Eric Enns (born January 2, 1961) is an American Biblical scholar and theologian. He has written widely on hermeneutics, Christianity and science, historicity of the Bible, and Old Testament interpretation. Outside of his academic work Enns ...

and

Daniel J. Harrington Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. (July 19, 1940 – February 7, 2014), was an American academic and Jesuit priest who served as professor of New Testament and chair of the Biblical Studies department at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry ( ...

, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (reprint edition 2015). * ''The Jewish Annotated New Testament'', with Amy-Jill Levine, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (second edition 2017). * ''How to Read the Bible'', Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 2005 (republished with minor revisions as ''How to Read the Jewish Bible'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). * ''The Jewish Study Bible'', with

Adele Berlin Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in Philadelphia) 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 ''Poet ...

, New York: Oxford University Press 2004 (second edition 2014). * ''The Book of Judges: Old Testament Readings'', London: Routledge, 2001. * ''Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. * ''The Creation of History in Ancient Israel'', London: Routledge Press, 1995 (paperback 1998). * ''God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor'', Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989 (republished 2009).

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