Curriculum Vitae
Born in Paris, 1948. Married, two children
Studies:
1965-1966: Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques,
Paris
1966-1969: Hebrew University (Philosophy; Jewish Thought);
1969: B.A. cum laude
[1969-1972: Military service, Israel Defence Forces]
1972-78: Harvard University (Comparative Religion). 1975:
M.A.; 1978: Ph.D. (with distinction)
1976-1977: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (Sciences
Religieuses)
Honors
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Zurich (2004)
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (since 2008)
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2008)
Academic career at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
1978: Lecturer
1984: Senior Lecturer
1989: Associate Professor
1994: Professor
1985-1991: Leeds Lecturer in Comparative Religion
Since 1991: Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion
1986-1987, 1989-1991, 1998-2000: Chair, Department of Comparative
Religion
1993-1994: Chair, Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities
1994-1997: Head, "Amirim" Program for fostering
excellence
1999-2005: Founding Director, Center for the Study of Christianity
1999-2000 (Fall): Fellow (group coordinator,) Institute for
Advanced Studies, Jerusalem.
2003-2006: Member of a Research Group on Jews in Byzantium
(Scholion Center)
2004: Director, Spring School in Comparative History, Institute
of Advanced Studies
2005: Co-Director, Spring School in Jewish Studies and Comparative
History, IAS
Since 2006: Co-Director, Summer School in Jewish Studies and
Comparative Religion, IAS
Visiting positions and major guest lectures:
1979-1985: Profeseur invité, Ecole Biblique et Archéologique
Française, Jerusalem
1983-1984: Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
1987 (Winter): Directeur d'Etudes associé, Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes, Paris
1987-1988: Profeseur invité, Département d'Histoire,
Université de Montréal
1989 (Spring): Profeseur invité, Université de
Genève
1989 (Summer): Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1991-1992: Fellow, the Annenberg Institute, Philadelphia
1994 (Summer): Martin Buber Gastprofessor, J.W. Goethe Universität,
Frankfurt a. M.
1997 (Winter): Directeur d'Etudes associé, EPHE, Paris
1998 (February): Boutwood Lectures, Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge University
1998 (November): Hanz-Lietzmann-Vorlesung, Friedrich-Schiller
Universität, Jena.
2000 (Spring): Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University
of Pennsylvania
2000-2001 (Fall): Visiting Professor, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid.
2001 (February): Visiting Professor, Fondazione Istituto
San Carlo, Modena
2001 (March): Visiting Professor, Theologisches Studienjahr
Jerusalem, Dormition Abbey
2002 (November): First Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Lecture, Gregorian
Pontifical University, Rome
2003 (Summer): Fellow, Einsteinforum, Potsdam
2004 (February): Visiting Professor, Collège de France,
Paris
2006-2007: Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton
University
2006-2007: Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania
2007 (Fall): Fellow, Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Bologna
University
2008 (Spring): Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris
2009 (Winter): Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
2009 (Winter): Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt
Editorial Service:
Editor, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture (Series at Brill; with David Shulman)
Member of the Board of Editors,
Adamantius Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte,
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte,
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo,
Hebraic Political Studies,
Religious Studies/Sciences Religieuses,
Asdiwal: Revue d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions,
Historia Religionum: An International Journal,
Annali di Scienze Religiose,
Religion der Römischen Provinzen (series at Mohr Siebeck)
Varia:
1979-1980: Warburg Post-Doctoral Prize in Jewish Studies
1994-1998: GIF Research Grant (with Prof. Jan Assmann, Heidelberg)
1998-2001: Research Grant from the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
2000-2003: Research Grant from the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
1995-2006: Member of the Yad Hanadiv Post–Doctoral
Fellowships Committee
1997: Grant from Yad Hanadiv
2003-2007: Director of network: “Human Rights, Human
Dignity, Human Duties: Historical, cultural and social aspects,” (Union
Académique Internationale, European Science Foundation)
2004-2006: Grant from the Center for Literary Studies, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
2004-2005: Grant from Yad Hanadiv
Since 2006: Member, Academic Advisory Board, Center for Hellenic
Traditions, Central European University, Budapest
Since 2008: Coordinator, "German-Israeli Frontiers of the Humanities Program (GIFOH)," Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
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