Marc Zvi Brettler
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American biblical scholar
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Marc Zvi Brettler's Degrees
- PhD Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Brandeis University
- Masters Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Brandeis University
- Bachelors Religion Brandeis University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marc Brettler is an American biblical scholar, and the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University. He earned his B.A., M.A., and PhD from Brandeis University, where he previously served as Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies. He researches biblical metaphors, the Bible and gender, biblical historical texts, the book of Psalms, and the post-biblical reception of the Hebrew Bible, including in the New Testament. He is a co-founder of the website thetorah.com, which integrates critical and traditional methods of studying the Bible.
Marc Zvi Brettler's Published Works
Published Works
- The new Oxford annotated Bible (2010) (127)
- The Jewish study Bible (2014) (67)
- The Creation Of History In Ancient Israel (1995) (62)
- God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor (1989) (52)
- The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version (2002) (44)
- The new Oxford annotated Bible : with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books (2001) (40)
- The Book of Judges: Literature as Politics (1989) (31)
- DEUTERONOMY 34 AND THE CASE FOR A PERSIAN HEXATEUCH (2000) (30)
- The Book of Judges (2001) (30)
- Judaism in the Hebrew Bible? The transition from ancient Israelite Religion to Judaism (1999) (29)
- How to Read the Bible (2005) (26)
- Song and Story in Biblical Narrative: The History of a Literary Convention in Ancient Israel (1997) (17)
- The Structure of 1 Kings 1-11 (1991) (15)
- The Jewish annotated New Testament : new revised standard version Bible translation (2011) (13)
- Incompatible Metaphors for Yhwh in Isaiah 40-66 (1998) (13)
- Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish at the Gladiator's Banquet: Rabbinic Observations on the Roman Arena (1990) (13)
- The Composition of 1 Samuel 1-2 (1997) (10)
- The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously (2012) (10)
- The Copenhagen School: The Historiographical Issues (2003) (8)
- David's Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King (review) (2012) (6)
- Jud 1,1-2,10 : From Appendix to Prologue (1989) (6)
- Minḥah le-Naḥum : biblical and other studies presented to Nahum M. Sarna in honour of his 70th birthday (1993) (5)
- How to Read the Jewish Bible (2007) (4)
- Method in the Application of Biblical Source Material to Historical Writing (with Particular Reference to the Ninth Century bce) (2007) (4)
- “Fire, cloud, and deep darkness” (Deuteronomy 5:22): Deuteronomy’s recasting of revelation (2008) (4)
- Those Who Pray Together Stay Together: The Role of Late Psalms in Creating Identity (2017) (4)
- Historical Texts in the Hebrew Bible (2013) (3)
- Happy is the man who fills his quiver with them (Ps. 127:5): constructions of masculinities in the Psalms (2016) (3)
- Biblical History and Jewish Biblical Theology (1997) (3)
- Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew (2001) (3)
- Women and Psalms: Toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult (1998) (2)
- Unresolved and Unresolvable: Problems in Interpreting the Song (2006) (2)
- The Hebrew Bible and the Early History of Israel (2010) (2)
- Ideology, History and Theology in 2 Kings Xvii 7-231 (1989) (2)
- A “Literary Sermon” in Deuteronomy 4 (2020) (1)
- Isaiah’s Suffering Servant: Before and After Christianity (2019) (1)
- Jewish readings of the Bible (2015) (1)
- The riddle of Psalm 111 (2009) (1)
- Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera's Death, and: Death & Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges (review) (2011) (1)
- Psalms and Jewish Biblical Theology (2012) (1)
- The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Retrospect and Prospects (2015) (1)
- A Jewish Historical-Critical Commentary on Psalms: Psalm 114 as an Example (2016) (1)
- Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (review) (2012) (0)
- A CONCLUSION THAT BECAME AN INTRODUCTION (2005) (0)
- In the Service of the King: Officialdom in Ancient Israel and Judah (review) (2005) (0)
- The Historical-Critical Reading of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (2012) (0)
- Rendsburg's "The Redaction of Genesis" (1987) (0)
- The Force of Apathy: A Young Voice on Jewish Politics (2012) (0)
- Long, "The Reign and Rejection of King Saul" (1993) (0)
- Books Received (1980) (0)
- Psalm 136 as an Interpretive Text (2013) (0)
- Elu Ve-elu Divrei Elohim Hayyim: A Biblical View (2006) (0)
- Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg (2012) (0)
- WORDS, IDEAS, WORLDS (2012) (0)
- Book Review:From D to Q: A Study of Early Jewish Interpretations of Solomon's Dream at Gibeon David McLain Carr (1994) (0)
- JUDGES AND THE HISTORIAN (2005) (0)
- Steven L. McKenzie. The Trouble with Kings: The Composition of the Book of Kings in the Deuteronomistic History . Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, vol. 42. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1991. 186 pp. (1995) (0)
- Jewish Theology of the Psalms (2014) (0)
- Book Review:The Confessions of Jeremiah: Their Interpretation and Role in Chapters 1-25 Kathleen M. O'Connor (1990) (0)
- BIB 101 - Intro. to Bible, Dr. Ora Horn Prouser Required (2016) (0)
- Winding down: the Concubine of Gibeah (2005) (0)
- The Most Powerful Software for Biblical Studies (2011) (0)
- BOOKS RECEIVED (2015) (0)
- Poetry and prose in Judges 4-5 (2005) (0)
- The Nathan Narratives (review) (2011) (0)
- The Hebrew Bible and History (2016) (0)
- History of Israel (2010) (0)
- Mikraot Gedolot "Haketer" Vol. 4 Isaiah (review) (2011) (0)
- Cogan and Tadmor's "II Kings" (1990) (0)
- Rofé, "The Prophetical Stories" (1992) (0)
- The Tanakh as History (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History: 1 Samuel Robert Polzin (1990) (0)
- Book Review:The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History Baruch Halpern (1990) (0)
- Isaac Kalimi. The Book of Chronicles: Historical Writing and Literary Devices. The Biblical Encyclopedia Library, vol. 18. Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2000. ix, 477 pp. (Hebrew). (2003) (0)
- Abstracts (2000) (0)
- Faith, Tradition, and History: Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context (review) (2012) (0)
- Afterword: Sof Davar Hakol Nishma? (2000) (0)
- The Spirit and the Word: Prophecy and Tradition in Ancient Israel (review) (2005) (0)
- The Early Boundaries of Jewish Studies (2014) (0)
- John Day. Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament . University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 115 pp. (1992) (0)
- David Aaron. Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics and Divine Imagery. The Brill Reference Library of Ancient Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2001. ix, 221 pp. (2003) (0)
- Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch. James W. WattsRoots of Rabbinic Judaism: An Intellectual History, from Ezekiel to Daniel. Gabriel Boccaccini (2003) (0)
- Books received 2014 (2014) (0)
- Reading the New Testament (2012) (0)
- Special Issue Reading Through the Lens of Gender (2000) (0)
- Torah Through Time (2007) (0)
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