Adele Berlin

 ( 1943 Births ) 

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 Poetics and interpretation of biblical narrative (). 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.

James L. Crenshaw (2025). 9780802828163, Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802828163

Sarah Nicholson (2025). 9780567009432, Continuum. . ISBN 9780567009432

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.Jewish Book Council. National Jewish Book Awards Retrieved February 2017. A decade later the two editors offered its second edition.

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Works Multiple works published:-

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Books

• (1979). 9780934718295, The University Museum. ISBN 9780934718295
• (1983). 9780907459231, Almond Press. ISBN 9780907459231
• (1985). 9780253318503, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253318503
• (1991). 9780585106120, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780585106120
• (1994). 9780385266314, Doubleday. ISBN 9780385266314
• (2025). 9780827606999, Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 9780827606999
• (2025). 9789651313257, Am Oved. ISBN 9789651313257
• (2025). 9780664218492, Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664218492
• Adele Berlin (2025). 9780827609402, Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 9780827609402

• (2025). 9780800699017, Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800699017

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Edited by

• (2025). 9780199978465, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199978465

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External links

• Articles by Adele Berlin

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