Ilana Pardes (born 1956[1]) is a biblical scholar. She is Katharine Cornell Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Pardes attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied under Robert Alter.[2] She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1990, and taught at Princeton University from 1990 to 1992. She has been at the Hebrew University since then.[3]