- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarships (1975-76, 1978-79).
- A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grants, Yale University (1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1996, 2009, 2011).
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend (1982).
- Morse Fellowship, Yale University (1983-84).
- American Philosophical Society Research Grant (Summer, 1984).
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1988).
- Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship (1988).
- Research Grant, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (1988).
- National Jewish Book Award in the category Scholarship, for From Tradition to Commentary (May 1992).
- Election as Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (July 2011). Executive Committee (2018- ).
- Election as Honorary Member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language (January 2012).
- Designation as Sackler Scholar, The Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Spring 2015).
- Designation as Visiting Scholar, The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, research group on legal interpretation (Spring 2015).
- Bar-Asher Siegal, Michal, Tzvi Novick, Christine Hayes, eds. The Faces of Torah: Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade. Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 22. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017. [click here for front matter and table of contents]
- Yale University Retirement Tribute, 2022: <https://fas.yale.edu/faculty-retirement-tributes-2022>