Guy G. Stroumsa

Guy G. Stroumsa is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, and Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the Academia Europea, and of the British Academy. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. He received the Humboldt Research Award, the Leopold-Lucas Prize, and the Rothschild Prize. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite.

He is the author of eighteen books and more than one hundred and fifty articles, and the editor or co-editor of twenty-one books. Among his recent publications: The Idea of Semitic Monotheism: The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth (Oxford, 2021); The Crucible of Religion in Late Antiquity (Tübingen, 2021); Religion as Intellectual Challenge in the Long Twentieth Century (Tübingen, 2021).