Arie van der Kooij

Curriculum Vitae

  • Born in Nieuwe Tonge, The Netherlands, 8 March 1945
  • Study theology at the University of Utrecht, 1963–1969
  • Assistant of Prof. dr. R. Frankena, 1967–1969
  • Lecturer of Old Testament Studies at the University of Utrecht, 1969–1989
  • Ph.D. Degree (thesis on the ancient textual witnesses of the book of Isaiah), November 1978 (supervisor, Prof. dr. A.R. Hulst)
  • Full Professor of Old Testament Studies at Leiden University, 1989–2010
  • Dean Faculty of Theology, Leiden University, 1992–1994
  • Director of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religion (LISOR), 1998–2000
  • Dean Faculty of Theology, Leiden University, 2000–2002
  • Director of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religion (LISOR), 2004–2008
  • Retired Associated Member of LIAS/LUCSoR, Leiden University, 2010–

In addition

  • Member-Secretary of the Assessment Committee “Godgeleerdheid” (Theology) of the Ministry of Education, 1987–1989 (aiming at assessment of all [13] theological faculties/universities in the Netherlands)
  • Secretary (1989–2001, 2004–2015) and President (2001–2004) of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT)
  • General Editor of the Peshitta Project, 1989–2010
  • Member Editorial Committee of the project Biblia Hebraica. Editio Quinta (BHQ)
  • Member Board of Electors to the Regius Professorship of Hebrew (University of Cambridge)
  • Member Advisory Board of
    • The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition (formerly, Oxford Hebrew Bible Project)
    • Biblia Qumranica Project
    • Hexapla Project
    • Göttingen Graduate School of Humanities (“die Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen” [GSGG])
  • Member Editorial Board of
    • Vetus Testamentum, 1989–2015 (editor-in-Chief, 1998–2010)
    • Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
    • Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden
    • Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
    • Bibliotheca Orientalis
    • Pericope. Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity
    • Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology
    • Dead Sea Discoveries, 1997–2009
  • Honorary Member of the Old Testament Society of South Africa
  • Member European Association for Jewish Studies
  • Member Society of Biblical Literature