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