Ilana Pardes (born 1966) is a biblical scholar. She is Katharine Cornell Professor of

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at the

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. Pardes attended the

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, where she studied under

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. She received her

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. in Comparative Literature in 1990, and taught at

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from 1990 to 1992. She has been at the Hebrew University since then.

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'' (

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, 2019) * ''Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale'' (

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, 2022).

References

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