The Society currently has 17 honorary members. Honorary membership is bestowed onto scholars from around the world as a recognition of the excellence of their work. Currently, the following scholars are Honorary members of the society (in alphabetic order).
Professor Athalya Brenner-Idan
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D., Rabbi
The Guidelines for the Nomination of Honorary Members can be found here.
Former honorary members include:
Frank Cross (1921-2012)
Rolf Rendtorff (1924–2014)
Menahem Haran (1924–2015)
Otto Kaiser (1924–2017)
Eduard Nielsen (1923–2017)
Bertil Albrektson (1929–2021)
Norman Gottwald (1926-2022) In Memoriam by Walter Brueggemann here.