Robert Polzin is a biblical scholar. He is Professor Emeritus at Carleton University, and has degrees from the University of San Diego and Harvard University.1
Polzin is best known for a series of volumes in which he attempted a "synchronic, literary reading of the Deuteronomic History."2 These were Moses and the Deuteronomist (1980), Samuel and the Deuteronomist (1989), and David and the Deuteronomist (1993).3
Polzin has also made a significant contribution to the study of Biblical Hebrew. Dong-Hyuk Kim argues that the methods Polzin developed in his 1976 study Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose have since been employed by a younger generation of scholars.4
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- "Robert Polzin". The College of the Humanities. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- Kissling, Paul J. (1996). Reliable Characters in the Primary History: Profiles of Moses, Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha. p. 28.
- Roncace, Mark (2005). Jeremiah, Zedekiah, and the Fall of Jerusalem. p. 13.
- Kim, Dong-Hyuk (2012). Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability: A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts. p. 15.