Robert H. Smith Professor of Hebrew
Bible.
Department of English and Jewish Studies Program
Ph.D., 1976, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. 1964
Dr. Berlin's special interests are literary approaches to the Bible and the theory and practice of biblical interpretation. Among her seven published books are Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes (Indiana University Press, 1991), The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism (Indiana University Press, 1985), and Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative (Sheffield, 1983). She also is interested in exegesis and has published commentaries on Zephaniah (Anchor Bible, Doubleday, 1994), Lamentations (Westminster/John Knox Press), and Esther (Jewish Publication Society of America, 2001; Hebrew translation in the Miqra leYisrael series). In addition, she has written over thirty scholarly articles and edited three books. The last of these, The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford University press, 2004) received the national Jewish Book Award.
At the University of Maryland she has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies (1988-1991), Acting Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs (1993-1994), and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs (1994-1997). She is currently Chair-elect of the University Senate and will serve as Chair in 2005-06.
Dr. Berlin is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and served on its Executive Committee. In 2000, she was the President of the Society of Biblical Literature. She has held many prestigious fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dr. Berlin can be reached at aberlin@umd.edu.
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