Centre for Biblical Studies - Babeș-Bolyai University

05/07/2024

The conference in motion.
The Reception of Violent Biblical Texts Within and Beyond the Canon (26-28 June 2024)
Credit: Székely Beáta, Rita Hegedűs

04/07/2024

The Reception of Violent Biblical Texts Within and Beyond the Canon
28 June 2024 (day 3)
📸Székely Beáta

27/06/2024

17/06/2024

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏
26-28 June 2024
Our international conference is approaching. We are looking forward to welcoming our speakers.
The program is available here:
https://cbs.conference.ubbcluj.ro/
Venue: Cluj, Iuliu Maniu 5, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Márton Áron Room

Tobias Nicklas, Dariya Syroyid, Halyna Teslyuk, Ihor Kuryliak, Bohdan Kuryliak, Alexandru Ioniță, Cosmin Pricop, Jan Willem van Henten, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Olimpiu N. Benea, Christos Karakolis, Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Harry Maier, Cyril Hovorun, Juriy Shchurko, Dmytro Tsolin, Taras Tymo, Ivanna Movchanyuk, Christos Karakolis, Roman Ostrovskyy, Olimpiu N. Benea, Andreas Dettwiler, Michael Sommer, Vasyl Rudeyko

16/04/2024

The Reception of Violent Biblical Texts Within and Beyond the Canon
26-28 June 2024
Venue: Cluj, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Iuliu Maniu str. 5

Organisers
Eastern European Liaison Committee, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
Beyond Canon Centre for Advanced Studies (Regensburg)
Centre for Biblical Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj)
Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of the Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj)
Partner: Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)

Description
The event is aimed to promote scholarly dialogue between Ukrainian and other European and American biblical scholars and researchers working in related areas, to understand the questions raised by Ukrainian colleagues and their approaches to the topic in the present context, to facilitate Ukrainian professionals’ networking and access to scholarly networks in the West.
It welcomes biblical scholars, philologists and other researchers working on ancient Christian texts, on New Testament apocrypha, or scholars focusing on patristic reception, on the reception of the Bible in iconography and the liturgy.
Speakers
Olimpiu BENEA (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj)
Marianne BJELLAND KARTZOW (University of Oslo)
Andreas DETTWILER (University of Geneva)
Cyril HOVORUN (Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy, Stockholm)
Alexandru IONIȚĂ (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu)
Christos KARAKOLIS (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Bohdan KURYLIAK (University of Zurich / Berrien Springs, MI)
Ihor KURYLIAK (University of Zurich / Chuy, Kyrgyzstan)
Harry O. MAIER (Vancouver School of Theology)
Ivanna MOVCHANYUK (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Tobias NICKLAS (University of Regensburg /Beyond Canon/EELC)
Roman OSTROVSKYY (Kyiv Theological Seminary of the Three Holy Hierarchs)
Cosmin PRICOP (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Orthodox Theology)
Clare ROTHSCHILD (Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, USA)
Vasyl RUDEYKO (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Yuriy SHCHURKO (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Serhii SMAHLO (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
Michael SOMMER (University of Frankfurt)
Halyna TESLYUK (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Ekaterini TSALAMPOUNI (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Dmytro TSOLIN (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Solomiya TYMO (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Taras TYMO (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Dariya SYROYID (Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv)
Jan Willem VAN HENTEN (University of Amsterdam)

27/08/2022

An accomplished NT scholar, a committed supporter of biblical scholarship in Romania, and a great friend of the Center for Biblical Studies.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, lieber Martin Meiser!

Hermeneutika, avagy a bibliai szövegértelmezés változatai címmel rendezték meg idén a Szegedi Nemzetközi Biblikus Konferenciát augusztus 23. és

26/08/2022

A moving open letter by Prof. Andrew Louth on Public Orthodoxy (in English, Greek, Russian and Bulgarian)
"the plea is more in the nature of a cry of anguish—anguish at the enormity of the suffering that Russia’s invasion is causing. We do not, I think, deceive ourselves that the protest of a group of scholars and academics is likely to carry much weight in the world of geopolitics. Why should we care, some might comment—should we not simply go back to our books and our studies? The rapid uptake of this letter—which grew out of insights voiced by speakers at a conference on Religion and Politics in the Context of the War Against Ukraine organised by the Centre for Biblical Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania—bears witness to the genuinely international nature of the world of scholarship, consisting of communities, bound together by our common commitment to the search for truth, by dispassionate scholarship, out of which have grown strong bonds of friendship and concern for one another and all our fellow-scholars—indeed all our fellow human beings—throughout the world, including those gagged by oppressive measures intensified by the Russian State from the beginning of this war.

It is our hope that our cry of anguish will be heard, and others join their voice to this protest. Who knows how many Christians in Russia will find consolation, in the silence imposed on them, from their knowing that there are many voices being raised against the violence being perpetrated in Ukraine for, now, six months, violence aided and abetted by his Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all the Rus′, whom many of us are finding it more and more difficult to acknowledge as our Father Patriarch?"

by Andrew Louth | български | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски The Christian world as a whole—and the Orthodox world, in particular—has been horrified by the invasion of Ukraine by the armed forces of Russia. It seems to be a distressingly indiscriminate campa...

28/07/2022

𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐱 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡

We are an international network of scholars – theologians, religious studies scholars, historians, sociologists of religion –, belonging to different denominations (Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Evangelical) or without religious affiliation, who share a profound concern for the tragic situation in Ukraine. This reflection and appeal has grown from several dialogues and initiatives, such as the open letter of German Protestant scholars to the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the World Council of Churches (3 June 2022) and the conference on Religion and Politics in the Context of the War Against Ukraine (Centre for Biblical Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, 24-25 June 2022).
We are deeply troubled by the unjust war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, by the terrible suffering the Russian military and mercenary troops inflict on the people of Ukraine, on civilian men and women, children and elderly, by the devastation of entire cities and villages, by the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural and religious heritage, and the informational war promoting hate speech and disinformation.
What makes us speak and address the WCC, aside from the injustice of this war, is the fact that the military invasion and the atrocious war crimes perpetrated by the Russian troops in Ukraine are justified and legitimised ideologically by the doctrine generally known as the “Russian world”. This aggression is styled as a “metaphysical struggle ” allegedly meant to defend Christian values and a traditional civilization, as a particular mission of the Russian Orthodox Church. Extremely cynically, an unjustifiable war which results in the unceasing shelling of countless settlements, the torture of civilians and prisoners of war, the r**e of women and children, the killing of innocent civilians, the deportations, the separation of hundreds of thousands of children from their families and their deportation to Russia, the indoctrination of school children and their prohibition to speak in their native language in the temporarily occupied territories, – all these crimes are endorsed by the Russian Orthodox Church and by Patriarch Kirill himself in the name of defending Christian values and the family.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ErnLAOIiiGr6LszgMWX7hAZTkc4WueQC/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112692561592277090320&rtpof=true&sd=true

27/07/2022

𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐱 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡

We are an international network of scholars – theologians, religious studies scholars, historians, sociologists of religion –, belonging to different denominations (Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Evangelical) or without religious affiliation, who share a profound concern for the tragic situation in Ukraine. This reflection and appeal has grown from several dialogues and initiatives, such as the open letter of German Protestant scholars to the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the World Council of Churches (3 June 2022) and the conference on Religion and Politics in the Context of the War Against Ukraine (Centre for Biblical Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, 24-25 June 2022).
We are deeply troubled by the unjust war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, by the terrible suffering the Russian military and mercenary troops inflict on the people of Ukraine, on civilian men and women, children and elderly, by the devastation of entire cities and villages, by the destruction of Ukraine’s cultural and religious heritage, and the informational war promoting hate speech and disinformation.
What makes us speak and address the WCC, aside from the injustice of this war, is the fact that the military invasion and the atrocious war crimes perpetrated by the Russian troops in Ukraine are justified and legitimised ideologically by the doctrine generally known as the “Russian world”. This aggression is styled as a “metaphysical struggle ” allegedly meant to defend Christian values and a traditional civilization, as a particular mission of the Russian Orthodox Church. Extremely cynically, an unjustifiable war which results in the unceasing shelling of countless settlements, the torture of civilians and prisoners of war, the r**e of women and children, the killing of innocent civilians, the deportations, the separation of hundreds of thousands of children from their families and their deportation to Russia, the indoctrination of school children and their prohibition to speak in their native language in the temporarily occupied territories, – all these crimes are endorsed by the Russian Orthodox Church and by Patriarch Kirill himself in the name of defending Christian values and the family.