Marc Brettler (Marc Zvi Brettler) is an American

biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament).''Introduction to Biblical Studies, Second Edition'' by Steve Moyise (Oct 27, 2004) pages 11–12 Fo ...

, and the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. He earned his B.A., M.A., and PhD from

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

, 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 websit
thetorah.com
which integrates critical and traditional methods of studying the Bible. In 2004, Brettler won the National Jewish Book Award for ''The Jewish Study Bible.''Korkmazsky, Marina (8 November 2004)
"NEJS profs. win Jewish book award"
. ''The Justice''.

Books

* ''The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently'', with

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, San Francisco: HarperOne, 2020. * ''The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously'', with

Peter Enns Peter Eric Enns (born January 2, 1961) is an American Biblical scholar and theologian. He has written widely on hermeneutics, Christianity and science, historicity of the Bible, and Old Testament interpretation. Outside of his academic work E ...

and

Daniel J. Harrington Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. (July 19, 1940February 7, 2014), was an American academic and Jesuit priest who served as professor of New Testament and chair of the Biblical Studies department at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (for ...

, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 (reprint edition 2015). * ''The Jewish Annotated New Testament'', with Amy-Jill Levine, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (second edition 2017). * ''How to Read the Bible'', Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 2005 (republished with minor revisions as ''How to Read the Jewish Bible'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). * ''The Jewish Study Bible'', with Adele Berlin, New York: Oxford University Press 2004 (second edition 2014). * ''The Book of Judges: Old Testament Readings'', London: Routledge, 2001. * ''Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew'', New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. * ''The Creation of History in Ancient Israel'', London: Routledge Press, 1995 (paperback 1998). * ''God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor'', Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1989 (republished 2009).

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