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. |
| Johannes Cornelis de Moor | (1935-2023) |