Isaac Kalimi#
Membership Number: | 5444 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.ev.theologie.uni-mainz.de/3827.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Scholar-In-Residence, Trinity International University, Chicago, USA
- 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, Germany
- 2013 - 2019 Fellow, Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, University of Mainz, 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 - present 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
Fields of Scholarship
- 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
Honours and Awards
- 2024 “Bonn International Fellow – Excellent Researcher,” University of Bonn, Germany
- 2023-2024 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.”