Isaac Kalimi#

• 2022-Present - Senior Fellow, The University of Chicago, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Chicago, USA.
• 2019-Present - Research Fellow, The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2013-2019 - Gutenberg-Research Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite History, University of Mainz and Fellow of the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, Germany
• 2011-2016 - Senior Research Associate, the University of Chicago, the Oriental Institute/Chicago, USA.
• 2014-2015 - Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala University, Sweden
• 2013 - Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• 2010-2011 - Fulbright Distinguished Professor in Intercultural Theology and Religious Study, University of Salzburg, Austria
• 2009-2010 - Whichard Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
• 2007-2008 - Senior-Fellow, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2005-2007 & 2009 - Visiting Professor in Religion: Jewish Studies – Hebrew Bible and Israelite Religion and History, Northwestern University, Dept. of Religion, Evanston, IL, USA
• 2002-2007 - Research Professor in Biblical Studies (including “Ezra Sensibar Visiting Professor in Biblical Exegesis,” 2002), Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, USA
• 2003-2004 - Rosenthal Distinguished Professor in Biblical Studies, Ancient Israelite and Near Eastern History, Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Classics & Dept. of Religious Studies, Cleveland, OH, USA
• 2002-2003 - Visiting Professor in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Jewish History, DePaul University, Dept. of Religious Studies, Chicago
• 2000-2002 - Professor of Biblical Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/The Central School for Teachers’ Advance Studies, Israel
• 2000-2002 - Professor of Biblical and Judaic Studies, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
• 1998-1999 & 1996-1997 - Visiting Professor in Biblical Religion and Rabbinic Literature, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• 1995 & 1997 - Research Professor, Advanced Studies in Hebrew Bible, Theological University of Kampen, The Netherlands
• 1995-1996 - Guest Professor in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Judaic Studies, Theological Faculty, Institute for Jewish- Christian Research, University of Luzern, Switzerland

• Rabbinic literature
• Ancient Near Eastern studies
• Jewish-Christian relations
• Ancient Israelite/Jewish history and historiography
• Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
• Second Temple Judaism
• Classical and Medieval Jewish exegesis
• History of interpretation

• 2024 “Bonn International Fellow – Excellent Researcher,” University of Bonn, Germany.
• 2023 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advance Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
• 2019 Franz-Delitzsch Prize 2019, Giessen, Germany
• 2015 Foreign Member of Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Section of Human Sciences)
• 2015 Honorary Member of Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies (Sweden)
• 2014 Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2013 Gutenberg Forschungskolleg (with one-million-euro fellowship), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
• 2013 Fellow, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Institute for Advanced Study.
• 2012 Franz-Delitzsch Research-Award 2012, Giessen, Germany.
• 2010 The J.W. Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award, the University of Salzburg, Austria
• 2008 Roifer Prize & Annual Lecture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
• 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), to W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
• 2006 R.B.Y. Scott Book Award, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
• 2004 Case Western Reserve University Library Award for “Building of a Collection in Biblical and Rabbinic Literatures” (Cleveland, USA)
• 1997 Research Fellowship, Advance Study in Biblical Literature, The Theological University of Kampen, the Netherlands
• 1996 President’s Foundation for “Outstanding Scholars and Authors,” State of Israel, the President's House, Jerusalem
• 1996 “Young Scholars Fellowship,” Catholic Biblical Association of America, Washington DC, USA
• 1995 Research Grand, Advance Study in Biblical Literature, Theological University of Kampen, the Netherlands
• 1990/91 Fellowship for research in Jewish studies, The Free University of Berlin, Germany
• 1990 Fellowship Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany
• 1989 “The Eva-Aliza Goldberg Fellowship in Jewish Studies,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 1989 “Neslovitz Foundation for Jewish Studies,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 1988 Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Institut für Deutsch als Fremd Sprache und Philologie
• 1988 World Sephardic Federation Prize for the “Distinguished Ph.D. Candidate.”

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