Ilana Pardes
Appearance
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Ilana Pardes (born 1956[1]) is a biblical scholar. She is Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Pardes attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied under Robert Alter.[2] She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1990, and taught at Princeton University from 1990 to 1992. She has been at the Hebrew University since then.[3]
Books
[edit]- Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach (Harvard University Press, 1992)
- The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible (University of California Press, 2000)
- Melville's Bibles (University of California, 2008)
- Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture (The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, University of Washington Press, 2013)
- The Song of Songs: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019)
- Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale (Yale University Press, 2022).
- Ilana Pardes and Itamar Lurie, Joseph and His Dreams: Bible, Literature, Psychoanalysis (Bialik Institute, 2023)
References
[edit]- ^ "Pardes, Ilana 1966-". WorldCat. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ Sternberg, Avi (20 December 2018). "After More Than Two Decades of Work, a New Hebrew Bible to Rival the King James". New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Prof. Ilana Pardes". Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 15 August 2022.