Faculty Guide

Title

Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

The Bible and its interpretation.

Awards and Honors

My People's Prayerbook, to which i contributed in all 10 volumes, received a National Jewish Book Award (2008)

Best Book 2006 Book Awards, Judaism, for How to Read the Bible (2006)

National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship Category for the Jewish Study Bible (2004)

Keter Torah Award, Bureau of Jewish Education, for "pioneering role in creating and shaping the Me'ah Program for adult Jewish learning (1999)

Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching (1991 - 1992)

National Endowment for Humanities Summer Stipend (1991)

American Philosophical Society travel grant (1990 - 1991)

Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1990 - 1991)

B'nai Zion Hebrew Award (1978)

Raucher Award for Hebrew (1977)

Courses Taught

NEJS	10a	Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Texts
NEJS	110a	Biblical Hebrew Texts
NEJS	111a	The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
NEJS	115b	Women and the Bible
NEJS	118b	The Book of Psalms
NEJS	119a	The Torah: Composition and Interpretation
NEJS	121b	Biblical Poetry: Love and Death
NEJS	122b	Biblical Narrative Texts: The Historical Tradition

Scholarship

Brettler, Marc. "A Jewish Perspective on Psalm 111." Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Psalms. Ed. Y. Zakovitch and M. Grohmann., 2009

Brettler, Marc. "The Riddle of Psalm Ps 111." Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane. Ed. Deborah A. Green, Laura S. Lieber. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009

Brettler, Marc. ""Kinghsip" and other articles." New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. 2008.

Brettler, Marc. "Feminist and Anti-Feminist Visions of the Bible." Seinan Theological Review 65. (2008): 143-165.

Brettler, Marc. "How Should Jews Interpret the Bible." Seinan Theological Review 65. (2008): 123-141.

Brettler, Marc. "Revelation at Sinai: Biblical Perspectives." The Significance of Sinai: Traditions About Sinai and Divine Revelation in Judaism and Christianity. Ed. George J. Brooke et al.. Brill, 2008

Brettler, Marc. ""Amos, Man and Book"." Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes. Ed. Brad E. Kelle and Megan Bishop. ny: t & t clark, 2007

Brettler, Marc. "A Biblical Commentary on the Haggadah,." My People's Passover Haggadah. Ed. Lawrence Hoffman. Woodstock: Jewish Lights, 2007

Brettler, Marc. "Biblical Authority: A Jewish Pluralistic View." Engaging Biblical Authority: Perspectives on the Bible as. Ed. William P Brown. Loiusville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. 1-9, 141-143.

Brettler, Marc. "Our Biblical Heritage." My People's Prayer Book Vol 10. Ed. Larence Hoffman. Woodstock: Jewish LIghts, 2007

Brettler, Marc. "¿Method in the Application of Source Material to Historical Writing (With Particular Reference to the Ninth Century BCE),¿." Understanding the History of Ancient Israel. Ed. HGM Williamson. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. 303-336.

Brettler, Marc. How to Read the Jewish Bible. NY: Oxford Univ Press, 2007.

Brettler, Marc. "Unresolved and Unresolvable: Problems in Interpreting the Song." Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs. Ed. Hawkins, Peter. NY: Fordham Univ Press, 2006. 185-198.

Brettler,Marc. "The State of Biblical Studies". JBL on-line forum, 2006.

Brettler,Marc. "Our Biblical Heritage." in My People's Prayer Book. vol. 8 Jewish Lights, 2005

Brettler,Marc. "Reviews." Rev. of Books. Jewish Quarterly Review 01 JAN 2005

Brettler,Marc. "Our Biblical Heritage " in My People's Prayer Book. Jewish Ligts, 2005.

Brettler,Marc. How to Read the Bible. Jewish Publication Society, 2005.

Brettler,Marc. Three book reviews in Jewish Quarterly Review. jqr, 2005.

Brettler,Marc. "The State of Biblical Studies." JBL on-line forum (2004).

Brettler,Marc, Adele Berlin. The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford Unviersity Press, 2003.

Brettler,Marc. Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew. 2002.

Brettler,Marc. The Book of Judges. 2002.

Brettler,Marc, co-ed. Michael Cogan Carol Newsom and Pheme Perki. The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Brettler,Marc. Reading Through the Lens of Gender. Indiana University Press, 2000.

Brettler,Marc. The Creation of History in Ancient Israel. Routledge Press, 1995.

Brettler,Marc, co-ed. Michael Fishbane. Minhah le-Nahum: Biblical and Other Studies Presented to Nahum M. Sarna in honor of his 70th birthday. Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Brettler,Marc. God Is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor. Sheffield Academic Press, 1990.