Prof. Dr. Maren Ruth Niehoff

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsJewish Studies,Religious Studies
KeywordsEarly Christianity, Greco-Roman Culture, Hellenistic Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Comparative Exegesis in Antiquity
Honours and awards

2024: ERC Advanced Grant ROMANA - the Roman Turn among Jews, Pagans, Christians

2022: Leopold Lucas Prize

2022: Scholion Research Group REMAPPING ELITES

2021: Israel Science Foundation, Research Project on Hellenistic Judaism in Palaestina

2019: Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanities

2017: Israel Science Foundation, Research Project on Genesis Rabbah in Context

2014: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

2011: Israel Science Foundation, Research Project on Philo. An Intellectual Biography

2011: Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanities

2003: German Israeli Foundation

2001: Humboldt Foundation

Current contact address

CountryIsrael
CityJerusalem
InstitutionHebrew University of Jerusalem
InstituteDepartment of Jewish Thought

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter SchäferInstitut für Judaistik (WE 5), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2001

Programme(s)

2000Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme