Ilana Pardes
Biblical scholar
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Ilana Pardes (Hebrew: אילנה פרדס; born 1956[1]) is a biblical scholar. She is Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Born1956 (age 69–70)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
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| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
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]
In 2022, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[4]
Books
- 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)