Biblical Studies at Leuven

17/06/2024

Congratulations to one of our research unit members, Sr Lizbeth, on successfully defending her doctorate on 'The Difference Between Women and Men in the Gospel of John' last week 🎉

15/05/2024

16/02/2024

To mark International Women's Day 2024, the Centre for Women's Studies in Theology will be hosting a special lecture by Prof. Heather McKay (Professor Emerita Edge Hill University) entitled 'Women…

09/02/2024

Congrats to our colleague Afe Alabi, PhD candidate in Leuven, for publishing his prize winning paper in NTS, the flagship journal of the field!

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studies/article/abs/can-a-slave-serve-two-masters-jointly-owned-slaves-in-documentary-papyri-and-the-synoptic-gospels/7A9DD6EE00D6C2F3273DACBF99362D6D #

25/11/2023

Congrats to our colleagues Danio Verde and Benjamin Suchard for their articles published in Vetus Testamentum and Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy!

Danilo Verde, "When Life is Endangered: The Use of the Formulaic Expression יום / עת צרה in Classical Hebrew," https://brill.com/view/journals/vt/aop/article-10.1163-15685330-bja10151

Benjamin Suchard, "What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre-Islamic Arabic?" (Open Access)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12234

15/11/2023

Congrats to our colleague Andy Patton for his article just published in New Testament Studies!

Open Access as well!

Direct Copying in a Group of Gospel Manuscripts with Catenae - Volume 69 Issue 4

14/11/2023

Just out: an Open Access thematic issue of TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism on "Decentralizing the Biblical Text in Greek New Testament Manuscripts," co-edited by our colleague Andrew J. Patton and Clark R. Bates.

Andrew J. Patton and Clark R. Bates | "Special Feature: Decentralizing the Biblical Text in Greek New Testament Manuscripts"

Jeremiah Coogan | "Doubled Recycling: The Gospel according to Mark in Late Ancient Catena Commentary"

Saskia Dirkse | "New Treasures as Well as Old: The Use and Reuse of the Gospel Kephalalaia in Commentary Manuscripts"

Tommy Wasserman | "Marginalized Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament in Vienna"

Clark R. Bates | "Materializing Unity: Catena Manuscripts as Vessels for Imperial and Ecclesial Reform"

Abstract: This paper reviews Dieter Böhler’s theory about the conception of Jerusalem in MT Ezra Nehemiah and 1 Esdras. According to Böhler, 1 Esdras preserves earlier versions in variants dealing with the rebuilding and settlement of Jerusalem, while the MT was revised to accommodate Ezra (and ...

08/11/2023

Just out: an Open Access thematic issue of AABNER on "Material and Scribal Scrolls Approaches to the Hebrew Bible" edited by Eibert Tigchelaar and Danilo Verde.

Material and Scribal Scrolls Approaches to the Hebrew Bible

"Background and Aims of A Scroll Approach to the Formation of the Hebrew Bible"
David McLain Carr

"Rewriting Ezekiel"
Anja Klein

"The Materiality of Ancient Hebrew Psalm Collections"
Drew Longacre

"Material Reconstruction of 4Q22 in Aid of Literary Criticism of the Book of Exodus"
Hila Dayfani

"Contextualizing 4QISAo (4Q68) in the Textual History of Isaiah"
Noam Mizrahi

https://aabner.org/ojs/index.php/beabs/issue/view/131

27/10/2023

Congrats again, Afe!

Congratulations to Afe Alabi, winner of the 2023 EABS student prize! In an interview, he shares more about his prize-winning paper and his PhD research at LEMMA, KU Leuven https://bit.ly/46LvaBx

23/10/2023

Conference report: 2023 EABS conference in Siracusa, Sicily https://bit.ly/46MLq5m

20/09/2023

Congrats to our colleague Sabrina Inowlocki for her article in the last issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity!

Sabrina Inowlocki, "The Hand of the Slave and the Hand of the Martyr: Pamphilus of Caesarea, Autography, and the Rise of Textual Relics"

This paper analyzes a specific reconfiguration of the text as body in the framework of martyrdom and the retrieval and preservation of the Origenian textual corpus. In this context, I suggest that autographic copies and corrections (that is, textual gestures performed in one's own hand) took on a ne...