Ilana Pardes, The Book of Ruth and the Question of Migration
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Louis and Rachel Lesk Memorial Lecture
Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Book of Ruth and the Question of Migration
Ilana Pardes sets out to explore the ever-changing perspectives on Ruth’s foreignness. She will primarily focus on modern literary adaptations in which Ruth is admired for being a paradigmatic migrant woman.
Ilana Pardes is the Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a Visiting Professor of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. Her work has focused on the nexus of Bible, literature, and culture as well as on questions of gender, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. She is the author of 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, Lives of Great Religious Books, 2019), Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale (Yale University Press, Jewish Lives, 2022).