Rabbi Jacob Neusner
Research Professor Of Theology And
Senior Fellow, Institute Of Advanced Theology
Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson, New York 12504 USA
Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard as well. He also is a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic and popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates, from the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Bologna University in Italy (in celebration of the University¹s 900th anniversary), Cologne University in Germany, Tulane University, St. Louis University; and Dowling College. In addition he holds fourteen academic medals and prizes, including The University Medal of Excellence, Columbia University, the Medal of Collège de France, the University of Tübingen Medal commemorating that University¹s five hundredth anniversary, the Queen Christina of Sweden Medal of Åbo Akademi (Finland), and the Abraham Berliner Prize in Jewish History of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as well as numerous other academic awards.. He grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, and is a graduate of William H. Hall High School (1950). He received his A. B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph. D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in 1960. During his graduate studies he also was Henry Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford University, 1953-1954, and Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1957-1958. In his professional career he was founding chairman of the Department of Hebrew Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1961-2), held a post-doctoral fellowship at Brandeis University (1962-4), and taught at Dartmouth College and at Brown University (1964-1989); he spent a research year at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, (1989-1990), and served as Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida (1990 to 2000). He began teach at Bard College on a part-time basis in 1994 and moved to New York to assume full-time duties in 2000. He has held two fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and two fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation as well as an NEH Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study and many other research awards. He also has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1991 he was awarded the Buber Chair at the University of Frankfurt, in 1992 was Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in 1993 Visiting Research Professor at Åbo Akademi in Finland, in 1994 Canterbury Fellow at University of Canterbury, in New Zealand, in 1995, Von Humboldt Research Professor at University of Göttingen, and in 1996 he was Visiting Professor in Theology at Uppsala University. He was President of the American Academy of Religion (1968-1969), the only scholar of Judaism to hold that position, and a member of the founding committee of the Association for Jewish Studies (1967-1970). He single-handedly founded the European Association of Jewish Studies (1980-1981). He also served, by appointment of President Carter, as Member of the National Council on the Humanities and, by appointment of President Reagan, as Member of the National Council on the Arts (1978-1984, 1984-1990, respectively). He is editor of the Encyclopaedia of Judaism (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; chairman of the Editorial Board of The Review of Rabbinic Judaism, and Editor in Chief of the Brill Reference Library of Judaism, both of them published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of Studies in Judaism, University Press of America. He was editor for Judaism of the Dictionary of Religion (Harper/AAR), and of the Encyclopaedia of Religion (Britannica/Merriam Webster). He resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.
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