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

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 (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 in Wassenaar, 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 at the universities of Amsterdam, London, Cambridge (UK), Münster, Berlin,  Leipzig, Jena, Aix-en-Provence, Budapest, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, Johannesburg, Durban-Westville, Stellenbosch, Toronto

Member of the editorial boards of:
monograph series:

• Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und Urchristentums = Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (since 1992)
• Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (since 1996)
• Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum (from 1986-2010)
• Jewish-Christian Perspectives (from 1998-2006)
• Joodse Bronnen (from 1998-2004)
• Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology (from 2000-2008)
• Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (since 2002)

journals:

• Journal for the Study of Judaism (since 1998)
• Journal of Graeco-Roman Christianity and Judaism (since 1998)
• Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift (from 1985-1990 and from 1995-2008)
• The Second Century (from 1980-1990)
• New Testament Studies (from 1988-1990)