Award Distinguished Scholar

Professor, Collège de France (2009)

President, International Association for Assyriology (2005-2009)

Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture in Religious Studies, UNC, Charlotte (2005)

E. Maynard Adams Lecture in the Humanities and Human values, UNC, Chapel Hil (2001)

Chuen King Lectures, Chinese University, Hong Kong (2000)

Visiting Scholar, École Pratique des hautes Études (1997)

President, American Oriental Society (1996-1997)

Director, Dupont Summer Seminars for Liberal Arts College Faculty: "The Hebrew Bible in Cultural Contexts" (1996)

Fellow, National Humanities Center (1994-1995)

President, AAUP, UNC-CH (1993-1994)

President, Society for Biblical Literature (SE) (1988)

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (1982-1983)

Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers: "Folklore Research in the Ancient Near Eastern Narrative" (1979)

Society for Religion in Higher Education: Post-Doctoral Award for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, To study the phenomenology of religion in Leiden, The Netherlands (1969-)