Robert Polzin is a biblical scholar. He is Professor Emeritus at

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...

, and has degrees from the

University of San Diego The University of San Diego (USD) is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in San Diego, California, United States. Chartered in 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. Polzin is best known for a series of volumes in which he attempted a "synchronic, literary reading of the Deuteronomic History." These were ''Moses and the Deuteronomist'' (1980), ''Samuel and the Deuteronomist'' (1989), and ''David and the Deuteronomist'' (1993). Polzin has also made a significant contribution to the study of

Biblical Hebrew Biblical Hebrew ( or ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite languages, Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Isra ...

. Dong-Hyuk Kim argues that the methods Polzin developed in his 1976 study ''Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose'' have since been employed by a younger generation of scholars.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Polzin, Robert Living people Old Testament scholars University of San Diego alumni Harvard University alumni Academic staff of Carleton University Year of birth missing (living people)