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Ilana Pardes

Ilana Pardes is an Israeli biblical scholar and Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1956Feminist readings of the BibleNational narratives in the BibleStudies of Melville and the BibleReception of the Song of Songs

Born: 3 January 1956
Occupation: literary theorist, comparative literature academic, literary scholar, university teacher
Education: University of California, Berkeley

Ilana Pardes was born in 1956

Ilana Pardes was born on January 3, 1956. She is the daughter of the economist Professor Don Patinkin and of Dvora Patinkin. She has two sisters, Naama and Tamira, and a brother, Aran.

She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, under Robert Alter. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature there in 1990.

She taught at Princeton University from 1990 to 1992 and then joined the Hebrew University. She was a visiting lecturer at Berkeley in 1996 and 2006 and at Harvard in 2012. She also held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, at Princeton, and at Scholion at the Hebrew University.

Her research covers the Bible, literature and culture, aesthetics and hermeneutics, and gender. Her books include studies of feminist readings of the Bible, national narratives in the Bible, Melville, and the Song of Songs. In 2022 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.