Adele Berlin
Adele Berlin was the Robert H. Smith Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Maryland before retiring. A groundbreaking literary critic, her 1994 book Poetics and Interpretation in Biblical Narrative is a seminal text. She is one of the few women to serve as the President of the Society of Biblical Literature. Her many publications include Zephaniah (Doubleday, 1991), Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes (Indiana Univ. Press, 1991) and The JPS Commentary: Esther (Jewish Publication Society, 2001).