Honours
- The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1958) was awarded for graduate study at Yale University.
- Agusta-Hazard Fellowship was given by Yale for study and travel in the Near East, Oct. 1964 to May, 1965.
- Canada Council research grant, Jan. -June, 1973
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award - 1979-1980
- National Endowment for the Humanities as director of seminar for college teachers summer 1984, 1989
- National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship together with a Visiting Research Fellowship, Oriel College, Oxford, 1985–86
- Awarded James H. Breasted Prize, American Historical Association, 1985 and the American Academy of Religion Book Award in Historical Studies, 1986, for In Search of History (Yale University Press, 1983).
- American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, together with a Visiting Research Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 1991–92
- Senior Research Fellow, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Jan-June, 1998
- Awarded the degree of Doctor of Theology h.c. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999.
- Honoured with a Festschrift — Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters, (Steven McKenzie and Thomas Römer, eds; Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 2000).
- Foreign Research Fellow, National Research Fund, South Africa, August–September 2002
- Honorary Member of the Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2003.
- Awarded the R.B.Y. Scott Book Prize (Canadian Soc. of Bib. Studies, 2003) for A Law Book for the Diaspora, Oxford University Press, 2003.
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