Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker

NINO and Ex Oriente Lux award a biennial prize for the best scholarly article written in the Netherlands by a junior scholar in the Netherlands on a topic concerning the Near East (incl. Egypt). The prize is funded by and named after C.P.M. Cuijpers en R.J.G. Opdenakker.

The topic of the publication should be within the scope of the NINO research areas, and published no more than five years before.

A call for submissions is open every two years from 15 November to 15 February. During this period authors may submit their published article through the NINO website. To compete, submitted articles should be no older than five years. The competition is judged in March/April; the winner is awarded the Prize in June/July. The jury consists of representatives for NINO, Ex Oriente Lux, and the prize’s founders.

JCO Prize 2027

Researchers in Near Eastern studies (incl. Egyptology) have the opportunity to submit their article, published no earlier than 2022, between mid-November 2026 and mid-February 2027.

The winner of the Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker 2027 will be announced at an award ceremony in Spring 2027.

Conditions and regulations

The main conditions for participation are:

  • The article contains original research into the Near East (incl. Egypt).
  • The article has been published between 2020-2024.
  • The (first) author was not older than 40 years at the time of publication.
  • The (first) author was affiliated with an organisation or institute in the Netherlands, and/or living in the Netherlands, at the time of publication.
  • The article has not previously won another prize.

The winner is expected to rework the winning article into a popularising publication, in a medium of their own choice, within a year from the award date. The authors of shortlisted articles will be asked to submit a popularisation proposal, which is taken into account by the jury.

The full regulations for the Jaarprijs Cuijpers-Opdenakker are available in Dutch (pdf).

Don’t miss the opportunity to win the prize for Best Scholarly Article on the Near East in the Netherlands!

 

Previous winners

JCO Prize 2025

  • Milinda Hoo, The Power to Impress and Impressing to Power. In: C. Michels, Hans Beck, Achim Lichtenberger (eds.), The Same, but Different? Monarchical Rule and Representation in the Hellenistic World (2024): 361–406. Read more.

JCO Prize 2023

  • Benjamin D. Suchard, The Greek in Daniel 3: Code-Switching, Not Loanwords. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 March 2022; 141 (1): 121–136. Read more.

JCO Prize 2022

  • Dries De Crom (2020). A Polysystemic Perspective on Ancient Hebrew-Greek Translation. Journal of Ancient Judaism 11(2), 163-199. Read more.

JCO Prize 2021

  • Judith Jurjens, The Teaching of Khety twice: a new reading of oBM EA 65597 as a school exercise. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 105 (2019), 127-134. Read more.