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, Samuel and the Deuteronomist, and David and the Deuteronomist.
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.
