Adele Berlin Profile Page
Campus Info
| Rank: | Emeritus Professor |
| Title: | Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible |
| Office Location: | 3119 Tawes Hall |
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| Phone: | 301-405-3821 |
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Profile
| Degree: | Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania |
| Area Groups: | Literary Theory; Mythology and Folklore; Textual and Digital Studies |
| Major Publications: | Author of 7 books, including Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative. (Sheffield, 1983), Zephaniah (Doubleday, 1980), Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes (Indiana, 1991), The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism (Indiana, 1985), Esther (Philadelphia, 2001), Lamentations (Louisville, 2002). Co-editor of The Jewish Study Bible (New York, 2004). |
| Articles: | 44 articles, 43 reviews, numerous contributions to encyclopedias. |
| Teaching & Service: | Joint appointment in Jewish Studies. Developed program in biblical studies; Editorial boards of Journal of Biblical Literature: Semeia , Hebrew Annual Review , Journal of the Ancient Near East Society , Hebrew Studies , and Jewish Quarterly Review ; Research and Publication Committee of the Society of Biblical Literature. Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, 1994-97. President, Society of Biblical Literature, 2000. Chair of University Senate, 2005-06. Acting Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1993-94. Director, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, 1988-91. Service on numerous departmental, college, and university committees, including departmental review committees, salary committees, promotion and tenure committees, University Appeals Committee. External service includes many public lectures, external referee for promotion and tenure, external reviewer for academic departments, reviewer of manuscripts and fellowship applications, dissertation committees, academic panels, etc. |
| Fellowships & Prizes: | National Endowment for the Humanities; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies; Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; General Research Board, University of Maryland.
Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. National Jewish Book Award for The Jewish Study Bible . Prize of the Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport (State of Israel) for Classical Literature, for Esther (Hebrew edition). Doctor of Hebrew Letters, Honoris Causa, Baltimore Hebrew University (2005). Gratz College Distinguished Alumni Award. |