Scholarship and Biography

Marc Brettler is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament with a strong interest in the meaning of the Bible in its original context as well as how the Bible has been interpreted in Jewish and general tradition through contemporary times.

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Honors

Bnai Zion Hebrew Award
Bnai Zion Foundation, 1978
Travel Grant
American Philosophical Society (United States, Philadelphia) - APS, 1990
Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1990
Summer Stipend
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1991
Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1991-1992
Keter Torah Award for "pioneering role in creating and shaping the Me'ah Program for adult Jewish learning
Bureau of Jewish Education, 1999
National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship Category for the Jewish Study Bible
Jewish Book Council, 2004
Keter Torah Award
Bureau of Jewish Education, 2006
Best Book 2006 Book Awards, Judaism, for How to Read the Bible
Jewish Book Council, 2006
National Jewish Book Award for My People's Prayerbook, to which I contributed in all 10 volumes.
Jewish Book Council, 2008
Lady Davis Visiting Professor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel, Jerusalem) - HUJI, 2012

Organizational Affiliations

Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies, Emeritus, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Education

Brandeis University
Ph.D.
Brandeis University
M.A.
Brandeis University
B.A.