Ilana Pardes (born 1956^[1]) 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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, Joseph and His Dreams: Bible, Literature, Psychoanalysis (Bialik Institute, 2023)