Robert Polzin is a biblical scholar. He is Professor Emeritus at

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

, and has degrees from the

University of San Diego The University of San Diego (USD) is a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California. Chartered in July 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University (comprising the College for Men and Schoo ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Polzin is best known for a series of volumes in which he attempted a "synchronic, literary reading of the Deuteronomic History." These were ''Moses and the Deuteronomist'' (1980), ''Samuel and the Deuteronomist'' (1989), and ''David and the Deuteronomist'' (1993). Polzin has also made a significant contribution to the study of

Biblical Hebrew Biblical Hebrew (, or , ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of ...

. Dong-Hyuk Kim argues that the methods Polzin developed in his 1976 study ''Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose'' have since been employed by a younger generation of scholars.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Polzin, Robert Living people Old Testament scholars University of San Diego alumni Harvard University alumni Carleton University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)