Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
The appointment process for the Editor-in-Chief is currently underway. During the establishment phase, editorial processes are coordinated by the Journal Manager in cooperation with the provisional Editorial Board.
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Aaron Koller
Regius Professor of Hebrew
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Expertise: Biblical Hebrew; Semitic Languages and Linguistics; Ancient Hebrew Philology; Jewish Aramaic; Hebrew Bible.
Prof. Dr. Aaron D. Hornkohl
University Associate Professor in Hebrew
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Expertise: Biblical Hebrew; Historical Hebrew Linguistics; Hebrew Philology; Biblical Hebrew Grammar; Textual Criticism; Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew; Semitic Linguistics; Masoretic Tradition.
University of Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri
Chair for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Expertise: Jewish Philosophy; Jewish Intellectual History; Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Thought.
Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München / Hochschule für Philosophie München, Germany
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Eckart Otto
Professor Emeritus of Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Expertise: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible; Pentateuch Studies; Deuteronomy; Old Testament Theology; Biblical Law; Ancient Near Eastern Law; Ancient Israelite Religion; Historical-Critical Exegesis; Biblical Archaeology; Theology of Ancient Israel; Hermeneutics; Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Dr. Emanuel Tov, Emeritus
J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible, Emeritus
Department of Bible
Expertise: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies; Septuagint Studies; Biblical Philology; Hebrew Manuscript Traditions.
Prof. Dr. Rivka Halevy
Department of Hebrew Language
Expertise: Modern Hebrew (syntax, semantics, and pragmatics).
Prof. Dr. Menahem Kister, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Department of Comparative Religion / Department of Jewish Thought
Expertise: Dead Sea Scrolls; Second Temple Judaism; Rabbinic Literature; Biblical Exegesis; Jewish and Christian Textual Traditions.
Prof. Dr. Yaron Ben-Naeh
Bernard Cherrick Chair in the History of the Jewish People
Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
Expertise: Ottoman Jewish History; Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies; Jewish History; Social and Cultural History; Ottoman Palestine.
Prof. Dr. Amihai Mazar, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Archaeology
Expertise: Biblical Archaeology; Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant; Iron Age and Bronze Age Archaeology; History of Ancient Israel; Material Culture of the Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology; Archaeology of Jerusalem; Israelite Society and Culture.
Prof. Miriam Frenkel
Professor of Jewish History; The Menahem Ben-Sasson Chair in Judaism and Islam through the Ages; Head of the Institute of History
Expertise: Jewish History; Medieval Jewish History; Cairo Geniza Studies; Judaism and Islam in the Middle Ages; Jewish–Muslim Relations; Medieval Judaism; Judeo-Arabic Studies; Jewish Communities in Islamic Lands; Cultural Encounters between Judaism and Islam; Social and Cultural History of Jews; Jewish Intellectual History; Medieval Manuscript Culture.
Grace Christian University, USA
Prof. Dr. Phillip J. Long
Professor of Bible and Ministry
Expertise: Biblical Studies; New Testament; Second Temple Contexts.
KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium
Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Lemmelijn
Dean, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies
Expertise: Septuagint Studies; Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible.
New York University (NYU), USA
Prof. Dr. Yael S. Feldman, Emerita
Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
Expertise: Modern Hebrew Literature; Hebrew Culture; Comparative Literature; Jewish Intellectual History; Cultural Memory Studies; Gender Studies.
Prof. Dr. Hasia R. Diner, Emerita
Professor Emerita
Departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History
Expertise: American Jewish History; Holocaust and Memory Studies; Jewish Diaspora Studies; Jewish Cultural History.
Yale University, USA
Prof. Dr. Jay Winter, Emeritus
Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus
Department of History
Expertise: Historical Memory Studies; Comparative Memory Studies; Modern European History; War and Society.
Prof. Dr. Hannan Hever
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature
Program in Judaic Studies and Department of Comparative Literature
Expertise: Hebrew Literature; Comparative Literature; Jewish Studies; Hebrew Intellectual History; Cultural Studies; Israeli Literature; Minority Discourse and Identity Studies; Hebrew Literary Theory; Literature and National Identity.
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Marcel Erdal, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Turkic Studies
Expertise: Old Turkic Studies; Historical Linguistics; Turkic Philology; Comparative Linguistics; Epigraphy; Historical Grammar; Medieval Eurasian Studies; Khazarology.
Aga Khan University, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Philip Wood
Tejpar Professor of Inter-Religious Studies
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Expertise: Inter-Religious Studies; Early Islamic History; Syriac Christianity; Abbasid Studies; Late Antiquity.
Brandeis University, USA
Prof. Dr. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies
Expertise: Holocaust Studies; East European Jewish History; Modern Jewish History; Jewish Cultural History.
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Prof. Dr. Shmuel Bolozky, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies
Expertise: Modern Hebrew; Hebrew Linguistics; Hebrew Grammar; Semitic Linguistics; Hebrew Morphology.
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Dr. Eyal Regev
Full Professor
The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
Expertise: Second Temple Judaism; Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies; Early Christianity; Jewish History; Hasmonean and Herodian Studies; Ritual Purity; Social Archaeology; Pharisees and Sadducees; Archaeology of Ancient Israel.
Prof. Dr. Aren M. Maeir
Professor of Archaeology
The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology
Expertise: Biblical Archaeology; Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology; Philistine Studies; Archaeology of Ancient Israel; Bronze and Iron Age Levant; Near Eastern Civilizations.
Prof. Dr. Yigal Levin
Associate Professor
Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History
Head of the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies
Expertise: History of Biblical Israel; Historical Geography; Archaeology of Ancient Israel; Biblical Historiography; Persian Period Yehud; Hebrew Bible Historical Contexts.
Catholic University of Argentina, Argentina
Prof. Dr. Juan Manuel Tebes
Professor, Catholic University of Argentina
Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History
Expertise: Ancient Near Eastern History; Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Historical Context; Biblical Archaeology; Iron Age Southern Levant; Ancient Israel; Origins of Yahwism; Archaeology of Edom, Negev, and Northwestern Arabia.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Motta
Associate Professor in History of International Relations
Sapienza University of Rome
Expertise: Jewish History; National Minorities and Ethnic Relations; Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies; Jewish Diaspora Studies.
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Dr. Nathaniel E. Greene
Lecturer in Hebrew Bible
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History
Expertise: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament; Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures; Biblical Hebrew; Northwest Semitic Epigraphy; Paleography; Ancient Israel and State Formation; Scribal Culture and Literary Production; Deuteronomistic History; Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
Emory University, USA
Prof. Dr. Oded Borowski, Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
Expertise: Biblical Archaeology; Archaeology of Ancient Israel and Judah; Iron Age Studies; Ancient Israelite Daily Life and Material Culture; Household Archaeology; Ancient Agriculture and Economy; Excavation Methodology; Historical Geography of Ancient Israel; Hebrew and Biblical History.
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Prof. Dr. Constantin Horia Oancea
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Faculty of Orthodox Theology “Saint Andrei Șaguna”
Expertise: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible; Old Testament Exegesis; Prophetic Literature; Septuagint and Reception History; Orthodox Old Testament Theology; Biblical Hermeneutics; History of Biblical Interpretation; Patristic Interpretation of the Old Testament; Historical Theology of Ancient Israel;
Dartmouth College / Harvard Divinity School, USA
Professor Dr. Susannah Heschel
Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies; Chair, Jewish Studies Program
Expertise: Jewish Studies; Modern Jewish Intellectual History; History of Biblical Scholarship; Jewish–Christian Relations; Jewish–Muslim Relations; Reform Judaism; Abraham Geiger Studies; German Jewish Thought; History of Antisemitism; Holocaust Studies; Christianity and the Bible in Nazi Germany; Interreligious Studies; Jewish Scholarship on Islam; Religion and Ethics; Jewish Feminist Thought.
Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr. Cyrill von Büttner
Faculty Member, Department for Comparative-Historical Study of Indo-European Languages and Areal Research
Expertise: Classical Hebrew; Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls; Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew; Prophetic Literature; Qumran Studies; Hebrew Philology; Hebrew Manuscript Traditions; Scribal Practices; Targumim.
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Jewish Studies and Holocaust Research, Croatia
Dr. Anita Fiket
Research and Teaching Assistant; ECTS and ISVU Coordinator
Expertise: Jewish Studies; Holocaust Studies; Jewish Heritage Studies; Holocaust Memory Studies; Cultural Heritage Studies; Jewish History in Croatia; Heritage Tourism; Memory and Identity Studies; Holocaust Education; Jewish Cultural History.
Lipscomb University, Lanier Center for Archaeology, USA
Prof. Dr. Steven M. Ortiz
Director, Lanier Center for Archaeology; Professor of Archaeology and Biblical Studies
Expertise: Biblical Archaeology; Archaeology of Ancient Israel; Hebrew Bible and Archaeology; Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology; Iron Age Studies; Historical Geography; Levantine Archaeology; Biblical History; Archaeology and Religion.
Managing Editor
Željko Stanojević
Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Belgrade
