The prize citation for Dr. Anderson’s Barry Prize reads:
By his thorough exploration of the theology of the Hebrew Bible and its relationships to later traditions, Gary Anderson has illuminated some of history’s most influential metaphysical and moral ideas, as well as contributing to interfaith understanding. His work explores both continuity and changes over the millennia in our understanding of such concepts as compassion for the poor, good and evil, atonement, reconciliation, and our existence. The Academy honors Dr. Anderson’s distinguished contributions to humanity’s understanding of one of its oldest and most influential sacred traditions.
Gary A. Anderson is Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Thought at the University of Notre Dame. His interests concern the religion and literature of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible with special interest in the reception of the Bible in early Judaism and Christianity. Anderson has won numerous awards including most recently grants from NYU (joint Tikvah/Straus Fellow in Jewish Law and Civilization), the American Philosophical Society, Lilly Endowment, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University. Recent Publications include: Sin: A History (Yale University Press, 2009); Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013); Christian Doctrine and the Old Testament: Theology in the Service of Biblical Exegesis (Baker Academic, 2017); That I Might Dwell among Them: Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative (Eerdmans, 2023). Both Sin and Charity were the recipients of numerous honors and have been translated into several languages.
October 2024
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