1. Guy Gedalyah Stroumsa was born on 27 July 1948 and is an Israeli scholar of religion.
16 Facts About Guy Stroumsa
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Guy Stroumsa is Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Emeritus Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford, where he is an Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.
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Guy Stroumsa is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, of the British Academy and of the Academia Europea.
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Guy Stroumsa's parents were Shoah survivors; his father, born in Salonica, survived Auschwitz thanks to his musical skills and his mother, born in Athens, Bergen-Belsen.
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Guy Stroumsa studied at the Lycee Voltaire and at the Ecole Normale Israelite Orientale, where he was greatly influenced by its principal, Emmanuel Levinas, who taught him philosophy and Talmud.
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Guy Stroumsa has held Visiting Professorship in a number of universities in Europe and the United States, and has been a Fellow, among other institutions, of Dumbarton Oaks, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
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Guy Stroumsa has been invited to give Lecture Series at Corpus Christi College and Trinity College, Cambridge, at the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Istituto San Carlo, and at the College de France.
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Guy Stroumsa received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich.
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Guy Stroumsa won an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2008.
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Together with Sarah Guy Stroumsa, he is a recipient of the Leopold Lucas Prize.
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Guy Stroumsa is married to Professor Sarah Stroumsa, a scholar of Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy and theology, who served for four years as the Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Guy Stroumsa's research focuses on the dynamics of encounters between religious traditions and institutions in the Roman Empire and in Late Antiquity, in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
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Guy Stroumsa has studied the crystallization of the Abrahamic traditions in late antiquity, as a background to Islam.
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Guy Stroumsa sees Gnosis, Manichaeism and Early Christianity as a unique laboratory for understanding religious transformations in late antiquity.
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Guy Stroumsa is the author of fourteen books, and the editor or co-editor of some twenty books.
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Guy Stroumsa has published more than a hundred and thirty articles.