Curriculum Vitae

Born on July 4, 1946, in Driebergen, The Netherlands
Primary school 1952-1958
Secondary school ('Gymnasium Alpha') 1958-1964
Study of Classical and Semitic philology and literature at Utrecht University 1964-1971
PhD in Theology at Utrecht University 1978 (supervisor: Willem C. van Unnik)

Career at the Faculty of Theology of Utrecht University :
Research Assistant 1969-1971
Junior lecturer in New Testament Exegesis 1971-1978
Senior lecturer in New Testament Exegesis 1979-1990
Full Professor of New Testament Exegesis, Early Christian Literature, and the Jewish and Hellenistic World of Early Christianity 1990 - 2006

Retirement 2006

 

In June 2008, Pieter van der Horst received a Festschrift entitled:

Empsychoi Logoi: Religious Innovations in Antiquity. Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst (eds. A. Houtman, A.F. de Jong, M. Misset-van de Weg; Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 73), Leiden: Brill, 2008; xxiv+646 pp.

His memberships:
Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) since 1994
Member of the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen since 1995

Other:
Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, autumn 1990
Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, spring and summer 1997
Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, autumn 1995
Research Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study 2001-2002
Research Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study 2006-2007
Guest lecturer at the University of South-Africa in Pretoria, May 1993
Guest lecturer at Princeton University, March 1996

Guest lectures were given at the universities of Amsterdam, Nijmegen, London, Cambridge (UK), Münster, Berlin,  Leipzig, Jena, Aix-en-Provence, Budapest, Warsaw, Cracow, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban-Westville, Stellenbosch, Toronto, San Diego.

Member of the editorial boards of:
(a) monograph series:

• Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und Urchristentums = Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (1992-2016)
• Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (since 1996)
• Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (1986-2010)
• Jewish-Christian Perspectives (1998-2008)
• Joodse Bronnen (1998-2004)
• Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology (2000-2008)

(b) journals:

• Journal for the Study of Judaism (1998-2017)
• Journal of Graeco-Roman Christianity and Judaism (1998-2008)
• Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift (1985-1990 and 1995-2008)
• The Second Century (1980-1990)
• New Testament Studies (1988-1990)
• Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (2002-2012)