Ellen van Wolde#
| Membership Number: | 3618 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://organisatiegids.ru.nl/tabOnderzoek.aspx?isEngels=false&RBSID=146640&frm=kennisbank&doHide=False |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010-present Academy Board Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), The Netherlands
- 2010-present Chair of Department Source Texts of Judaism and Christianity, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2009-present Full Professor Exegesis Old Testament/Source Texts Judaism, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1992-2008 Full Professor Exegesis Old Testament and Hebrew, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
- 2002 Visiting professor, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
- 1996-1997 Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- 1991-1992 Associate Professor Biblical Studies, Catholic University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1988-1990 Assistant Professor Biblical Studies, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1987-1988 Researcher Hebrew Bible, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, Rome, Italy
- 1983-1987 Researcher Hebrew Bible, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Hebrew Bible
- Ancient Near Eastern studies
- Biblical Hebrew
- Cognitive linguistics
- Narratology
- Semiotics
- Hebrew syntax
- Semantics
- Theology
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Fellowship Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar NL
- 2011 Royal Honours, Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 2010 Radboud Science Award, Wetenschapsknooppunt Nijmegen
- 2010 Documentary “In the beginning” by John Appel (director). A portrait of Ellen van Wolde in KNAW Series The Magic of Science
- 2010 Sage Publishers 2009-2010 most downloaded article-award
- 2009 Frans Duynstee Trofee, Third Prize, Radboud University Nijmegen
- 2008 Secondment Grant in the Humanities (NWO) for research project ‘The Jacob Case. Text and Cognition in Context’
- 2006 Elected Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
- 2005 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academy Board Member since 2010)
- 2005 Udine University Medal of Honour
- 2002 Elected member of the Society of Old Testament Studies, United Kingdom
- 2002 Awarded KNAW Colloquium on ‘The Book of Job and Cognitive Linguistics’
- 1989 Marga Klompé Prize
- 1982 Best MA Thesis Award, Radboud University Nijmegen
