Adele Berlin
Adele Berlin
Adele Berlin is Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible, Emerita, at the University of Maryland. She is the author of numerous books and articles, the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2nd ed., 2011), and coeditor of The Jewish Study Bible (2nd ed., 2014). She is a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Tisha B’Av
Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av, is a day of fasting and mourning that commemorates the destruction of the first and second temples.