Robert Polzin

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.

Polzin is best known for a series of volumes in which he attempted a "synchronic, literary reading of the Deuteronomic History." These were ''Moses and the Deuteronomist'' (1980), ''Samuel and the Deuteronomist'' (1989), and ''David and the Deuteronomist'' (1993).

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. Provided by Wikipedia