Defend Academic Freedom - An Internationally Supported Denunciation of Any Boycott of Israeli Scholars

SIGNATORIES TO THE STATEMENT, SPIRIT, PHILOSOPHY
and HISTORY OF THE MANIFESTO
IN DEFENSE OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM, WORLD-WIDE

LIST OF SIGNATORIES ACTIVELY GROWING

Israelis obviously support this manifesto and are included by definition.

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Dale C. Allison, Jr. [NJ]
Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ

 

Gary A. Anderson [Notre Dame, IND]
Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology
Notre Dame University

 

Dr. Silvia Haia Antonucci (Italy)
Responsible for the Historical Archives
of the Jewish Community of Rome
(ASCER)

 

Professor Dr. Rami Arav [NE]
Department of Religion
Director, Bethsaida Excavation
University of Nebraska at Omaha

 

Harold W. Attridge [CT]
Sterling Professor of Divinity
Yale Divinity School
New Haven, CT

 

Lea Berkuz (NJ)
Editorial Assistant, Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project
Former restaurateur and culinary artist
Princeton, NJ

 

Lee Biondi [Santa Barbara, CA]
Biondi Rare Books & Manuscripts
Advisory Board, Foundation on Judaism and Christian Origins
Ancient Manuscript Appraiser

 

Gabriele Boccaccini [MI]
Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins/New Testament
Department of Near Eastern Studies / Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan

 

Darrell Bock [TX]
Senior Research Professor of New Testament
Executive Director Cultural Engagement,
The Hendricks Center
Dallas Theological Seminary

 

Professor Dr. Peder Borgen  [Norway]
Professor Emeritus of New Testament 
Past President of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Trondheim/Lilleström, Norway

 

James H. Charlesworth [NJ]
B.D, Ph.D., E.T., DHL [2]; KNVS
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
Director and Editor, Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project
George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature
Princeton Theological Seminary
Co-convener of the Princeton-Prague Symposia
Chairman, Fulbright Committee, Princeton Theological Seminary

 

Shaye J.D. Cohen [MA]
Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy
Chair, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University

 

Daniel L. Dintzer [Los Angeles, CA]
Lawyer

 

Dr. Lorenzo DiTommaso [Canada]
Professor, Department of Religion
Concordia University

 

Mgr. Jan A. Dus, Th.D. (CZ)
Centre for Biblical Studies
Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague

 

Casey Elledge [MN]
Associate Professor and Advisor, Religion and Pre-Law
Gustavus Adolphus College

 

Raffaele Esposito [Italy]
Professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature
University of Naples L'Orientale

 

Craig A. Evans, Ph.D., D.Habil [CAN]
Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament
Acadia Divinity College
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Canada

 

David A. Fiensy, Ph.D. [KY]
Dean, Graduate School
Kentucky Christian University
Grayson, KY

 

Steven Fine [NY]
Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Professor of Jewish History,
Yeshiva University
New York

 

John W. Fischer [Cincinnati, OH]
Lawyer
Former counsel to Lane Theological Seminary,
now merged with McCormick Theological Seminary

 

Peter W. Flint, Ph.D.  [Canada]
Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies
Director, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute
Professor of Religious Studies
Trinity Western University
Langley, BC

 

Prof. Florentina Badalanova Geller [Germany]
Topoi Excellence Cluster
Freie Universität Berlin

 

Prof. Dr. Markham J. Geller [Germany]
Professor für Wissensgeschichte
Topoi Excellence Cluster
Freie Universität Berlin

 

Robert Goldenberg [NY]
Professor Emeritus, History and Judaic Studies
Stony Brook University (NY)

 

Valerie Hemingway (MT)
Author & Speaker
Bozeman

 

Dr. Charlotte Hempel [England]
Reader in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism
University of Birmingham, UK

 

Shalom E. Holtz [NY]
Associate Professor of Bible
Chair, The Robert M. Beren Department of Jewish Studies
Yeshiva University

 

Simcha Jacobovici (Canada)
Three time Emmy award winning TV Producer
Adjunct Professor
Department of Religion
Huntington University, Ontario

 

George Jochnowitz [NY]
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the
College of Staten Island, CUNY

 

James F. Joyner III  [SC]
Certified Public Accountant
Financial Valuation Analyst
Editorial Assistant for the FJCO

 

Sergio La Porta [CA]
Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies
California State University, Fresno

 

Bernard M. Levinson [MN]
Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible
Professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and of Law
University of Minnesota

 

Professor Hermann Lichtenberger [Germany]
Institutum Judaicum [Tübingen]

 

Peter Machinist [MA]
Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages
Harvard University
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Harvard Divinity School

 

Jodi Magness [NC]
Kenan Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Corrado Martone [Torino, Italy]
Associate professor of Hebrew Language and Literature
University of Turin, Italy

 

Prof. Lee Martin McDonald [AZ]
Professor and President emeritus of Acadia Seminary
Leading authority on canon

 

George A. Makrauer [FL]
CEO, Comad Management Group
Senior Management and Strategic Planning Advisor
Advisory Board and Admin. Asst. to the President,
Foundation on Judaism and Christian Origins

 

Martin McNamara [Dublin, Ireland]
Emeritus Professor of Sacred Scripture
Director of the "Aramaic Bible Project"

 

Dr. Harold Merskey [Canada]
MA, DM, FRCP, FRCPC, FRCPSYCH
Professor Emeritus
University of Western Ontario

 

Carol Meyers [NC]
Mary Grace Wilson Professor
Duke University 

 

Eric Meyers [NC]
Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies
Duke University

 

Eric Noffke  [Italy]
Professor of New Testament
Facoltà Valdese di Teologia
Rome

 

Prof. Dr. Gerbern S. Oegema [Canada]
Professor of Biblical Studies
Faculty of Religious Studies
McGill University

 

David I. Owen  [NY]
Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of
Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Emeritus
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

Dr. Dennis R Papazian  [MI]
Professor Emeritus
Department of History
University of Michigan
Dearborn

 

Petr Pokorny (CZ)
Co-chairman of the Princeton-Prague Symposia on the Historical Jesus
Professor Emeritus, Centre for Biblical Studies
Research Fellow, Centre for Biblical Studies
Charles University
Prague

 

Dr. Simone Isacco Maria Pratelli [Italy]
Expert scholar in Syriac Studies
University of Pisa, Italy

 

Prof. Dr. Martin Prudky (CZ)
Protestant Faculty of Theology
Centre for Biblical Studies
Charles University
Prague

 

Dr. Stefan C. Reif [England]
Emeritus Professor of Medieval Hebrew Studies 
Fellow of St John's College 
University of Cambridge, UK

 

Prof Gary A Rendsburg [NJ]
Distinguished Professor
Laurie Chair in Jewish History
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, N.J.

 

Prof. J. J. M. Roberts [NJ]
William Henry Green Professor of Old Testament Literature Emeritus
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ

 

Jan Roskovec, Th.D. {CZ}
Lecturer in the New Testament at Protestant Theological Faculty
Director of the Center for Biblical Studies
Charles University
Prague

 

John C. Reeves [NC]
Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

James A. Sanders [Los Angeles, CA]
Professor Emeritus,
Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University
President Emeritus, Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center

 

Lawrence H. Schiffman [NY]
Yeshiva University and NYU

 

Martin Schwartz [CA]
Professor Emeritus
Near Eastern Studies
University of California
Berkeley

 

Professor Dr. Harmon L. Smith [NC]
Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology    
Duke University
Durham, NC

 

Jonathan Stone, DSc FAA [Sydney, Australia]
Professor of Retinal and Cerebral Neurobiology
Executive Director, Bosch Institute
University of Sydney F13

 

James Riley Strange [AL]
Associate Professor of Religion
Director, Shikhin Excavation Project
Samford University
Birmingham, AL

 

Prof. Dr. Loren Stuckenbruck [Germany]
Chair, New Testament and Second Temple Judaism
Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

 

Prof. James D. Tabor, Chairman [NC]
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity
Department of Religious Studies 
UNC Charlotte

 

Dr. Abraham Terian [NY]
Emeritus Professor of Armenian Patristics and Theology
St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New Rochelle, NY

 

Dr. Johnson Thomaskutty [India]
New Testament Studies
Editor, UBS Journal
Union Biblical Seminary
Maharashtra, India

 

Jeffrey H. Tigay [PA]
Emeritus Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
University of Pennsylvania

 

Benyamim Tsedaka [Samaritan, Israel]
Head of A.B. - Institute of Samaritan Studies - Holon, Israel
Editor of A.B. - The Samaritan News Magazine

 

Eugene Ulrich [IN]
J. A. O'Brien Professor of Hebrew Bible, emeritus
University of Notre Dame

 

Marcello Del Verme [Naples, Italy]
Former Professor of Early Christianity and History of Religions
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Sez. storico-religiosa

 

Theo Maarten van Lint [England]
Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies
University of Oxford
United Kingdom

 

Prof. Pieter W. van der Horst [The Netherlands]
Professor Emeritus of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Utrecht University

 

Linda Wall [NC]
Excavator at Hatzor
Advisory Board, Foundation on Judaism and Christian Origins
Distinguished Breeder:
Buckskin Mare Grand Champion 2011.
Reserve Champion 2012

 

Robert N. Wolfe, M.D., F.C.C.P. 
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine 
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 
University of California, Los Angeles 

 

Prof. Miroslaw S. Wrobel [Poland]
Director and Editor of the Polish Aramaic Project

 

Theo Maarten van Lint [Oxford, UK]
Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies
University of Oxford
United Kingdom

 

Professor Konstantinos Th. Zarras [Greece]
Facutly of Theology,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athens, Greece

 

Prof. Dr. Constantin Zuckerman [Paris, France]
Ecole pratique des hautes études, 
En Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne