Adele Berlin Explained

Adele Berlin
Birth Date:	23 May 1943
Birth Place:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation:	Biblical scholar
Known For:	Literary approach to the Bible
Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies
Boards:	Past President of the Society of Biblical Literature, Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research
Education:	University of Pennsylvania, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gratz College
Alma Mater:	University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Title:	Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna, A Sumerian Narrative Poem
Thesis Year:	1976
Workplaces:	University of Maryland
Main Interests:	Biblical narrative and poetry, and the interpretation of the Bible

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.^[1]

Berlin is best known for 1994 work Poetics and interpretation of biblical narrative . She has also written commentaries on 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.

Works

Multiple works published:-^[6]

Books

• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna, A Sumerian Narrative Poem . Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund . 2 . Philadelphia, PA . The University Museum . 1979 . 9780934718295 . 6090804 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative . Bible and literature series . 9 . Sheffield, UK . Almond Press . 1983 . 9780907459231 . 10214708 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism . Bloomington, IN . Indiana University Press . 1985 . 9780253318503 . 924981288 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes . Indiana studies in biblical literature . Bloomington, IN . Indiana University Press . 1991 . 9780585106120 . 43475924 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Zephaniah: a new translation with introduction and commentary . . 25A . New York . Doubleday . 1994 . 9780385266314 . 28928604 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Esther: the traditional Hebrew text with the new JPS translation . JPS Bible Commentary . Philadelphia, PA . Jewish Publication Society . 2001 . 9780827606999 . 44669511 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Esther . Miḳra le-Yiśraʼel Commentary . Tel Aviv . Am Oved . 2001 . 9789651313257 . 48838494 .
• Book: none. Berlin . Adele . 3 . Lamentations: A Commentary . Old Testament library . Louisville, KY . Westminster John Knox Press . 2002 . 9780664218492 . 49892430 .

Edited by

• Book: none . Berlin . Adele . 3 . Brettler . Marc Zvi . Marc Zvi Brettler . The Jewish Study Bible . Oxford & New York . Oxford University Press . 2014 . 9780199978465 . 892869165 .

External links

• Articles by Adele Berlin

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adele Berlin. University of Maryland. 28 July 2013. 4 November 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181104184256/https://jewishstudies.umd.edu/faculty/Adele-Berlin. dead.
2. Book: Herzberg, Walter. Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon. Traditional Commentators Anticipating a Modern Literary Approach. 1998. Continuum. 517.
3. Book: Crenshaw, James L.. James L. Crenshaw. The Psalms In Israel's Worship. Foreword. 2004. xxx. Eerdmans.
4. Book: Nicholson, Sarah. Three Faces of Saul: An Intertextual Approach to Biblical Tragedy. 2002. Continuum. 13.
5. Jewish Book Council. National Jewish Book Awards Retrieved February 2017.
6. Web site: Adele Berlin - CurriculumVitae . March 5, 2019.