The Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Visiting Professorship, an annual exchange of professors between the Center for the Study of Christianity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the “Cardinal Bea” Centre for Judaic Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, was established in 2001. Below are the professors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who have held courses at the Bea Centre in recent academic years.

2023/2024
Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“From Temple State to People of the Book: Jewish History in the Graeco-Roman Period”

2022/2023
Prof. Avishai Bar-Asher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Kabbalah and Esotericism: Concealment and Hermeneutics in the History of Jewish Mysticism"

2021/2022
Prof David Satran, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity: Dilemmas, Debates and Directions”

2020/2021
Prof. Israel Yuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Organising Sacred Time: Pesach and Easter; Shavuot and Pentecost; Shabbat and Sunday”

2019/2020
Prof. Avishai Bar-Asher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah: Esotericism, Transmission of Knowledge and Interpretation”

2018/2019
Prof. Joshua Levinson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Fiction, Narrative and Truth in Rabbinic Midrash”

2017/2018
Prof. Yakir Paz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Between Dialogue and Polemic: Rabbis and “Heretics” in the Land of Israel and Babylonia”

2016/2017
Prof. Yonatan Moss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Judaism and Syriac Christianity: Influence, Interaction and Independence”

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Visiting Professors 1999-2023

In the context of the same exchange programme, every year, there are Visiting Professors who give lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.