Biography
Since 1997 professor dr. Irene Zwiep has held the chair in Hebrew and Jewish Studies (formally: of Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac languages and cultures from the 1st century AD) in the Hebrew department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In the period 2008 – 2012 she was also working as the director of the Institute of Culture and History, the largest of the research institutes of the humanities faculty of the UvA and from 2012-2013 as director of the College of Humanties. Professor Zwiep is member of the jury of the Joop Witteveen Prize.
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