KALIMI, Isaac (December 1952), is one of the world’s leading scholars in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, history and historiography of Ancient Israel, and Jewish studies. He is considered as a pioneer of intercultural and interdisciplinary academic exchange between Jewish and Christian theologies.

Kalimi is an ordinary member of The Academia Europaea – The Academy of Europe for Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies (Sweden). He taught and researched at several distinguished universities in the USA, Europe, and Israel, and held numerous invited guest-lecture in all over the academic circles.

Kalimi received many awards and honors, including National Endowment for the Humanities (USA, 2007/08); Fulbright–University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair (2011); The Franz-Delitzsch-Research-Award 2012; Fellow-in-Residence, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship; Brussels, 2013); Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala University, 2014/15); Gutenberg Forschungskolleg, (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany; a million Euro Fellowship, 2013-2019).

Professor Kalimi has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, and 30 books, including works such as: The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles (2005, 2nd edition 2012; recipient of the R.B.Y. Scott Book Award of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies 2006; earlier versions: German, 1995; Hebrew, 2000); An Ancient Israelite Historian (2005; Polish version, 2017); The Retelling of Chronicles in Jewish Tradition and Literature (2009); Fighting Over the Bible (2017; German version 2020); Metathesis in the Hebrew Bible (2018); Untersuchungen zur Jüdischen Schriftauslegung und Theologie (2018, recipient of Franz Delitzsch Prize 2019); Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel (2018; German version, 2020).