Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American biblical scholar and Hebraist.
Before her retirement, she was Robert H. Smith Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Maryland.
[1] Berlin is best known for 1994 work Poetics and interpretation of biblical narrative (ISBN 1575060027).
Berlin has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and President of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Along with Robert Alter and Meir Sternberg, Berlin is one of the most prominent practitioners of a literary approach to the Bible.