Ilana Pardes

Ilana Pardes (born 1956) is a prominent biblical scholar and the Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and has authored several influential books on biblical literature, including Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach and Ruth: A Migrant Tale. In 2022, she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.