The Society currently has 16 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 in the members’ space here (login required). Please send any nominations to the secretary for honorary members, Prof Susan Gillingham (email).
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. |
| Johannes Cornelis de Moor | (1935-2023) |