{{Short description|Biblical scholar}} thumb|Ilana Pardes in 2016 '''Ilana Pardes''' ({{Langx|he|אילנה פרדס}}; born 1956<ref>{{cite web |title=Pardes, Ilana 1966- |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2014055779/ |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>) is a biblical scholar. She is Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Pardes attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied under Robert Alter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sternberg |first1=Avi |title=After More Than Two Decades of Work, a New Hebrew Bible to Rival the King James |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/magazine/hebrew-bible-translation.html |access-date=15 August 2022 |work=New York Times |date=20 December 2018}}</ref> She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1990, and taught at Princeton University from 1990 to 1992. She has been at the Hebrew University since then.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Ilana Pardes |url=https://en.complit.huji.ac.il/people/ilana-pardes |publisher=Hebrew University of Jerusalem |access-date=15 August 2022}}</ref>
In 2022, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilana Pardes|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Pardes_Ilana|work=Member|publisher=Academia Europaea|access-date=2024-10-04}}</ref>
==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'' (Princeton University Press, 2019) * ''Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale'' (Yale University Press, 2022). * Ilana Pardes and Itamar Lurie, ''[https://www.bialik-publishing.co.il/index.php?dir=site&page=catalog&op=item&cs=6294&language=eng Joseph and His Dreams: Bible, Literature, Psychoanalysis]'' (Bialik Institute, 2023)
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