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Korinna Zamfir

Adjunct Fellow

Korinna Zamfir

E-Mail: kori_zamfir@yahoo.com

https://ubbcluj.academia.edu/KorinnaZamfir


Kurzbiografie

EDUCATION

  • 2012 Habilitation (New Testament Hermeneutics and Exegesis), Theologische Fakultät Universität Regensburg, Deutschland: Men and Women in the Household of God. A Contextual Approach of Male and Female Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles
  • 2005 PhD (Theology), Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania: A katolikus-protestáns egyháztani párbeszéd és erdélyi recepciójának korlátai a 20. századi felekezetközi viszony tükrében (The Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue and its Limited Reception from the Perspective of 20th Century Interconfessional Relations in Transylvania)
  • 1998 Degree in Theology, Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
  • 1998 Specialisation exam in Neurology, Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Cluj, Romania
  • 1992 Degree in medicine, Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Cluj, Romania

CURRENT POSITIONS

  • 2014 – Professor (Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)
  • 2010 –  Research fellow (Faculty of Theology, Old and New Testament Discipline Group, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
  • 2020 – Adjunct fellow (Centre for Advanced Studies "Beyond Canon", University of Regensburg)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

  • 2009 – 2014 Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania                    
  • 2003 – 2009 Lecturer (Junior Lecturer), Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania                              
  • 2000 – 2003 Assistant, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
  • 1998 – 2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
  • 1993 – 1998 Physician, Resident Neurology, Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital, Cluj, Romania
  • 1992 – 1993 Physician, Intern, Clinical Adult Hospital, Cluj, Romania

FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2007 – 2009 Postdoctoral research (specialisation student), 24 months, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium: Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles
  • 2006, then yearly: 2011- 2019 Visiting fellow (research programs of the BBU): Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • 1999, 2003 CEEPUS scholarship/ Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

TEACHING ACTIVITIES 

  • 2014 – Professor, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
    • BA: Introduction to the Old Testament, Introduction to the New Testament, Old Testament Exegesis, New Testament Exegesis, Ecumenism, Hellenistic Period and Religions (C);
    • MA: Biblical Theology, Ecumenical Theology; Psychopathology (C)
    • PhD: Ecumenical Theology (C)
  • 2009 – 2014 Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
    • BA: Introduction to the Old Testament, Introduction to the New Testament, Old Testament Exegesis, New Testament Exegesis, Biblical Greek I, Ecumenism, Hellenistic Period and Religions (C+S)
    • MA: Old Testament Theology, New Testament Theology, Ecumenical Theology, Psychopathology (C)
  • 2003 – 2009 Lecturer (Junior Lecturer), Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
    • BA: Introduction to the Old Testament (C, S); Introduction to the New Testament (S), Old Testament Exegesis (C, S), New Testament Exegesis (C, S), Ecumenism (C), Biblical Greek I (C), Biblical Theology (C)
    • MA: Psychoanalysis in Theology, Old Testament Theology, New Testament Theology, Patristic Exegesis (C)
  • 2000 – 2003 Assistant, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
    • BA Seminars: Old Testament Exegesis, New Testament Exegesis, Dogmatic Theology (Sacramental Theology, Theology of Grace)
  • 1998 – 2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
    • BA Seminars: Old Testament Exegesis, New Testament Exegesis, Dogmatic Theology (Sacramental Theology, Theology of Grace)

Licentia docendi: Msgr. György Jakubinyi, archbishop (1258/24.08.1998)

GUEST LECTURES ABROAD

  • 2018 Erasmus teaching mobility, Sapientia School of Theology, Budapest (Pastoral Epistles, Women in Romans)
  • 2017 Erasmus teaching mobility, Sapientia School of Theology, Budapest (Pastoral Epistles, Gospel of John)
  • 2013 Guest lecturer, University of Regensburg (New Testament Ecclesiology, New Testament Anthropology)
  • 2012 Erasmus teaching mobility, Sapientia School of Theology, Budapest (Early Christian Communities in the Greco-Roman World)
  • 2010 Erasmus teaching mobility, University of Regensburg, Faculty of Theology (New Testament Anthropology) Erasmus teaching mobility, Sapientia School of Theology, Budapest (Pastoral Epistles)
  • 2009 Erasmus teaching mobility, Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Theology (Greek II: 1 Timothy)
  • 2008 Erasmus teaching mobility, Radboud University Nijmegen (Gen 1-3)
  • 2007 Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Theology
    • Textual Criticism Doctoral Seminar (Pastoral Epistles) Non-reception as Challenge to Ecclesiological Dialogue (MA in Theology and Religious Studies);
    • November: Research Unit of the Biblical Department, paper on Asceticism and Otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
  • 2006 Erasmus teaching exchange, Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Theology (Gen 1-3, Jeremiah)

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania:

  • 2019.12.6-7 Wounded Identities in Central and Eastern Europe. Religious and Political Identification
  • 2019.06.21-23 Reading Women in the New Testament Epistles
  • 2018.12.6-7 Mapping the Theology and Religious Studies Curriculum: Religion and Human Rights
  • 2017.12.7-8 Religion and Human Rights: Friends of Foes?
  • 2016.11.25-26 Hermeneutics of Religious Texts: Religion and Politics
  • 2015.11.5-7 Religion and Politics. Jews, Christians and the Empire(s)
  • 2008.10.16-18 Creation, Humans, Nature in Scriptures, Jewish and Early Christian Literature (with Tobias Nicklas, University of Regensburg)
  • 2007.10.18-19  John Chrysostom – Interpreter of the Scriptures
  • 2006.10.19-21 Prophetism in the Old and New Testament (with colleagues from the Universities of Bern, Nijmegen, Leuven)
  • 2005.12.6-7 The Bible – Fundament of the European Culture (with Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest)
  • 2007.06.14-17 Second International Conference of the Teaching Religion in a multicultural European Society,  Erasmus Thematic Network (TRES), Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj/Romania

Annual Conference of the Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University:

  • 2006.12.9-12 Transylvanian Roman-Catholic Theology − Past, Present, Future
  • 2005.11.11-12 Life as Value and Task
  • 2004.10.22-23 The Christian Aspects of European Identity
  • 2003. 11. 21-22 The Sacraments at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  • 2002.04.19-20 The Role of Religion in Reconciliation
  • 2000.11.10-11 The Christian Family– Ideal and Reality
  • 1999.11.18-20 Challenges Confronting Theology at the Beginning of the 3rd Millenium

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 2016–2019 Head of Department (Didactic Theology), Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
  • 2012-2016 Member of the Senate of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (Commission for International Relations; Commission for Language Policies)
  • 2000-2012 International Relations and Erasmus Coordinator, Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology
  • 2005-2008, 2013-2015 Director, Centre for Biblical Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University (Vice-Director: 2008-2010, 2016-2018)
  • 2000–2019 Member of the Faculty Committee, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
  • 1998 – Faculty member, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

  • 2016– Member of the National Council for the Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates, Theology Commission / Romania (advisory body by the Ministry of Education)

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

  • 2003 –  Editorial board member of Sacra Scripta (Centre for Biblical Studies, BBU) - EBSCO, CEEOL; executive editor 2005-2010
  • 2000 – Editorial board member of the Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina; executive editor 2000-2009
  • 2010 –  Editorial board member of Keresztény Szó (Journal of theology and culture of the Transylvanian Roman-Catholic Diocese)

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

  • 2013 - Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
  • 2011 - Corporation of Doctors affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - Society of Biblical Literature 
  • 2008 - European Society of Women in Theological Research
  • 2007-2019 Catholic Biblical Association
  • 2006 - Romanian Biblical Association
  • 2005–2009 American Academy of Religion

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

  • Lucian Turcescu (UMontreal), Martin Meiser (USaarbrücken), Ekaterini Tsalampouni (U Thessaloniki), Rebeka Anic (Ivo Pilar Inst., Split), András Máté-Tóth (USzeged): Religion, Human Rights and Politics. The Challenges Faced by Central and Eastern Europe, (research project), Financing: Porticus/Auxilium; Centre for Biblical Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, (Coordinator 2015-2020).
  • Irmtraud Fischer (Graz), Mercedes Navarro (Madrid), Adriana Valerio (Napoli), Christiana de Groot, (Gran Rapids, Michigan, USA): Reading Women in the New Testament Epistles. The Social and Ecclesial Implications of Biblical Interpretation within The Bible and Women. An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. Project http://www.bibleandwomen.org/EN/; Conference and publication supported by the Herbert Haag Stiftung (grant), (Organizer of the conference, Editor of the volume on Women in the Epistles with Uta Poplutz (Wuppertal) 2018-2020).
  • Sapientia School of Theology of the Religious Orders, Budapest, Hungary: Adult Christians and a New Vision of the Church. Adult Formation for Church and Society, Financing: Porticus/Auxilium; Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, (Coordinator (with Mózes Nóda) 2013-2016).
  • Sapientia School of Theology of the Religious Orders, Budapest, Hungary; Gergely Kovács (Pontifical Council for Culture/Vatican): Integrating Theological Formation with the Academic and Social Environment: A Catholic Theological Academy for Intellectuals, Financing: Porticus/Auxilium; Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (Coordinator (with Mózes Nóda) 2010-2013).
  • University of Regensburg (T. Nicklas): Creation, Humans and Nature in Jewish and Early Christian Literature, Financing: Renovabis; Centre for Biblical Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, (Coordinator with Tobias Nicklas (Uni Regensburg) 2008-2010).
  • University of Regensburg (Tobias Nicklas, Andreas Merkt), KU Leuven (Joseph Verheyden): Novum Testamentum Patristicum; Regensburg, Leuven, (Member since 2007).
  • Irish School of Ecumenics, Dublin (Norbert Hintersteiner): Translating God(s): Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies, Erasmus IP; Dublin/Istanbul, (Local coordinator 2010-2012).
  • Coordinator: Uppsala University (Håkan Bengtsson), Other members of the Steering Committee: Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Anders Bäckström (Uppsala), Thomas Bremer (Münster), Thomas Ekstrand (Uppsala), Erik Eynikel (Nijmegen), Massimo Faggioli (Bologna), Mathijs Lamberigts (Leuven), Robin Scalfani (Brussels), Hans-Georg Ziebertz (Würzburg): Teaching Religion in Multicultural European Societies Erasmus TN, Partners: 57 European universities, Financing: EU (https://www.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/rp/research/finished-projects/tres/); Uppsala/ Nijmegen/ Cluj/ Würzburg (Member Steering Committee, National Coordinator in Teaching Religion 2006-2008).
  • Coordinator: Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz, (Nortbert Hintersteiner): The Concept of God in Europe’s Global Religious Dialogue (Gottdenken in Europa Heute), Erasmus IP, Partners: 24 European universities, Financing: EU; Faculté de Théologie et de Sciences Religieuses /Paris, (Member research team of the BBU, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology 2003-2005).
  • Promoter: Institute for Ecumenical Studies and Research, Bensheim, Coordinator: Dieter Brandes, Partners: Lucian Blaga U. Sibiu, Univ. of Bucharest, A.I. Cuza U Iasi, Károli Gáspár U. Budapest, Univ. of Sofia, Univ. of Bratislava, Université Miséricorde Fribourg, Univ. Leipzig etc.: Healing of Memories – Bridge between Churches, Cultures and Religions. Inter­con­fessional and Interdisciplinary Project of the Ecclesiastical, Cultural, Political and Ethnic Bases and Interdependences in Reli­gious-Cultural Border Areas Between East and West European Cultures and Religions. Financing: Conference of European Chur­ches, Community of Protestant Churches in Europe; Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (Member research team of the BBU, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology 2005-2007).

OTHER ACTIVITIES

  • 2003-2004 Neurologist, Centre for Diagnose and Therapy Cluj (part time concurrent position)
  • 1995-2004 Diakonia Reformed Nursing College Cluj (professor of neurology, part time concurrent position)

AWARDS

  • Award of Excellence in Research, Babeş-Bolyai University (2016)

  • Professor of the Year (Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology), Babeş-Bolyai University (2011)

  • Diploma for University Management, Babeş-Bolyai University (2010)

  • Professor of the Year (Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology), Babeş-Bolyai University (2009)

  • Scholarly Excellence Diploma, Babeş-Bolyai University (2006)

  • Institutional Innovation Diploma, Babeş-Bolyai University (2005)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • Native Languages:
    • Hungarian
    • Romanian
  • Foreign Languages:
    • English (fluency in speaking, reading, writing);
    • French (fluency in speaking, reading, good proficiency in writing)
    • German (fluency in reading, good proficiency in understanding written and oral communication, basic skills in speaking and writing)
    • Italian (good proficiency in understanding written and oral communication)

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

2019

  • The Deviantisation of Asceticism and Marriage. The Case of 1 Timothy and the Acts of Thecla. Symposium of the Hellenic Bible Society, Athens, 13-14 December.

  • Women’s Ministry in Titus, Ethics in Titus, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 12-14 September.

  • Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed. Dating the Pastoral Epistles, Das Baujahr hinter der Fassade. Probleme bei der Datierung neutestamentlicher Pseudepigraphen und neuere Lösungsansätze, Uni Giessen, 30. May-1 June.

  • Response to John Barclay (UK), ‘Koinonia and the Theological Basis of Sociality in Paul’ (Reading Paul’s Letters in Context: Theological and Social-Scientific Approaches seminar, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, 74th Annual Meeting, Marburg, 30 July-2 August.
  • Women as Learners and Teachers. Women’s (Lack of) Authority, Reading Women in New Testament Epistles. The Social and Ecclesial Implications of Biblical Interpretation. Cluj, June 21-23.

2018

  • A nők beszéde és hallgatása, ill. a tekintély kérdése az ókori források tükrében (Women’s Silence, Speech and Authority in Ancient Sources), University of Szeged, Workshop on Female Identity and Women’s Lives in Antiquity, October 30.
  • A Response to Christine Gerber, Stell dir vor, es gibt Exegese, und niemand liest es. Zur Relevanz der Exegese in der evangelischen Kirche, Neues Testament und Kirche. Symposium zu Ehren von Ulrich Luz, Bern – Laupen, March 16-18.

2017

  • Exegesis in a Multi-ethnic and Multi-confessional Region. Challenges and Responsibilities, XVI. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie - Christentum und Europa, Vienna, September 10-13.
  • Érvénytelen protestáns egyházi szolgálat? Megfontolások az egyházi szolgálatról a reformátorok írásai és az ökumenikus dokumentumok tükrében, Reformáció és ökumenikus párbeszéd, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 25-27 January

2016

  • Mixed Marriages, Confessional Identity and Interconfessional Relationships in Transylvania in the 18th Century, International Conference: Challenges and Cultures of Change in Transylvania, 16th to 18th Century, Refo500 – RefoRC, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, 9-10. December
  • Reading Scriptures – A Harmless Enterprise? Fundamentalism as Religious and Social Concern, Hermeneutics of Religious Texts: Religion and Politics, Cluj, 25-26.11.2016
  • The Departing Paul. Some Reflections on the Meaning of Spendomai and its Early Christian Reception, EABS, Leuven, 17-20 July
  • Fundamentalismul – caracteristici si consecinte, Consultarea Texte religioase, fundamentalism, politică, Centrul de Studii Biblice UBB, Cluj, 18 06 2016

2015

  • Shipwrecked, Enemies, and Deserters? The Opponents and their Function in the Pastoral Epistles, Conference on 'Gegenspieler' Zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gegner in frühjü­discher und urchristlicher Literatur, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 2-4 October.
  • Sokrétű identitás a kora kereszténységben, Symposium on Language, Identity and Communication, Sapientia School of Theology of The Religious Orders, Budapest, 21 March.
  • The Opponents in the Pastoral Epistles, Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence The Search for Early Christian Groups and Movements international conference, University of Leuven, 18-20 February.

2014

  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla - Ecclesial, Social and Political Context. Some Observations for Further Discussion, 69th SNTS Meeting (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas)- Christian Apocryphal Literature Seminar, Szeged, 5-8 August.
  • Eusebeia, Soteria and Civic Loyalty in the Pastoral Epistles, "Make Disciples of all Nations" The Appeal and Authority of the Christian Faith in Graeco-Roman Times, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, 2014, 30 September – 1 October.
  • The Complaining Sufferer Before God. Annual conference of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, The Sufferer Before God, 29-31 January.

2013

  • The Social Background of the Early Christian Communities from the Perspective of First Corinthians, Symposium on the Occasion of the Hungarian Day of Science; Sharing Around the Table. Models of Commensality and Coexistence in the New Testament); Lutheran Theological University Budapest, 7 November.
  • The Catholic Church on the Way to Ecumenism, at the Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Vatican II, Oradea, 19 October.
  • The Love of Money is the Root of all Evils. Wealth and the Wealthy in 1 Timothy 6, International Biblical Conference in Szeged: The Bible and Economics. The Poor and the Rich in the Biblical Text, 21-23 August.
  • Women’s Mission in the Early Church; Symposium on The Woman and her Mission, Debrecen, 19-21 April.

2012

  • A Look at the Reception of Isa 52,13-53,12 in the New Testament and in Early Christian Authors, International Biblical Conference hosted by the Centre of Biblical Studies of the Babeş-Bolyai University on Messianische/Christologische Texte im Alten Testament und ihre Rezeption im Neuen Testament und in der Patristik, Cluj, 8-9 November.
  • The Topos of Hiddenness in 1 Timothy, 67th General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas: Preconference of the Eastern European Liaison Committee, Leuven, 30 July-4 August.
  • Hidden Body and Voice. A Contextual Approach of 1 Tim 2,9-15, International Conference on Religion and the Female Body in Ancient East Mediterranean, Sapientia School of Theology of the Religious Orders, Budapest, May 29–31.
  • Changing Paradigms in Biblical Interpretation. Scholarly Research, Interdisciplinarity, Plurality. Symposium on Changing Paradigms and Communication, organised by the Bolyai Society Cluj, May 4–5.

2011

  • Ecumenical Ethos in the Teaching of the Biblical Disciplines. A Catholic and Ecumenical Perspective, at the Consultation on Ecumenical Ethos in Theological Formation, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Sibiu, 19-20 September.
  • Discourse, Authority and Gender in the Pastoral Epistles, at the XIV International ESWTR Conference. Feminist Theology: Listening, Understanding and Giving Answer in a Secular and Plural World, Salamanca, 24-28 August.

2010

  • Teremtés vagy evolúció. Hermeneutikai és exegetikai megfontolások a teremtéstörténetek értelmezéséhez (Creation or evolution? Hermeneutical and Exegetical Considerations on the Margin of the Creation Narratives), Annual theological Conference of the Faculty of Romano-Catholic Theology, Creation or evolution?, March 12-13
  • Wealth, Authority and Gender in 1 Timothy 2, at the 65th General Meeting Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum, Preconference organized by the East-European Liaison Committee, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2010, 26-31 July
  • Az első Timóteus-levél antropológiai fejtegetéseinek kulturális háttere és célja (The cultural background and the Aim of the Anthropological Reflexions of 1 Timothy), 22nd International Biblical Conference in Szeged (We live in Body), September 9.
  • The Community of the Pastoral Epistles as Voluntary Association, at the Symposium on Private Associations and the Public Sphere in the Ancient World, organized by The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2010, Copenhagen, 10-11 September.

2009

  • Bible and ecology, Symposium of the Márton Áron Society on Church and Ecology, Miercurea-Ciuc (January 30-31)

2008

  • Catholic–Protestant Mixed Marriages in the 20th Century Transylvania -  Annual Conference of the Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology: The Millenial Existence of the Transylvanian Bishopric. 27–29 November, Alba Iulia.
  • A Relecture of Creation and Fall in 1Timothy, at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies: Creation, Humans, Nature in Scriptures, Jewish and Early Christian Literature (with Regensburg University), 16-18. October.
  • Teaching Religion in Romania: Faith, Reason and Attitudes to Plurality. The Lesson of TRES, at the International Conference on Reason and Faith at the Beginning of the Third Mil­lennium, Babeş-Bolyai University with UNESCO-European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) and the Italian Cultural Institute Bucharest, 9-11 October.
  • Why Should Women Not Teach? The Pastoral Epistles and Ancient Mentality: ESWTR Regional Conference, Cluj, Contribution of Women in Shaping the Spiritual Features of a Unified Europe. Past Experiences that Shape the Present and the Future, Sept. 5–7.
  •  Thanksgiving as legitimation - 1Tim 1,12-17, 20th International Biblical Conference Szeged, (Psalms, Hymns, Prayers), 31. Aug.-2 September.
  • The Transformation of the Pauline tradition in 1Tim 2,8-15. An Intertextual Analysis, Annual Symposium of the Romanian Bible Association, Sibiu, February.

2007

  • Men and Women in the House(hold) of God. Chrysostom’s Homilies on 1Tim 2,8-15, Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies: John Chrysostom – Interpreter of the Scriptures,10.18.
  • Asceticism and Otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, Biblical Research Unit, Catholic University Leuven, October.

2006       

  • Is There a Future for the Catholic-Protestant Dialogue? Non-reception as Challenge to Ecclesiological Dialogue, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington DC, 11.18-21 (Ecclesiological Investigations section)
  • Jeremian Motifs in the Synoptics’ Understanding of Jesus and his Ministry, Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies: Prophetism in the Old and New Testament, October 19-21.
  • Jesus − Lawgiver or Prophet? Effective History of the Beatitudes, Annual International Conference Szeged: The Law of Moses – The Law of Christ, August, Szeged.

2005

  • An Overview of the Tensions Related to Mixed Matrimony in Transylvania during the 18−20th Century, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA, November 19-22.
  • Cultural and Socio-Psychological Causes of Ethnic and Religious Identity in Transylvania, The Concept of God in Europe’s Global Religious Dialogue, Erasmus Intensive Program, Paris, September 6-17.

2004

  • Ecumenical Implications of the Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles for Ordained Ministry, Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies, Cluj, 11-12 Nov. 2004.
  • Psychoanalytical Exegesis, Annual International Conference Szeged: The Interpretation of the Bible, Szeged, 08. 29-09. 01.

2003

  • The Prologue of John: interferences between Greek philosophical Thought and Jewish Tradition, Annual Conference of the Centre for Biblical Studies, Cluj, 2003.11.4-5.
  • The Eucharist in the Ecumenical Dialogue. Annual Conference of the Faculty of the Roman-Catholic Theology: The Sacraments at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 11.21-22.
  • The Identity of the Other: Mystery and Challenge. Reflections on the interpersonal relation from the viewpoint of Emmanuel Lévinas, Centre for Biblical Studies, Cluj, October.
  • Jeremiah’s Ministry During the Crisis of Religious Institutions, Annual International Biblical Conference Szeged:  Religious Community - Lay Community, 08.31.-09.03.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED WITHOUT PAPERS

  • 2018.08.7-10: 73rd General Meeting, Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), Athens
  • 2017.10.27-28: Changes, (Dis)Continuities, Traditions and Their Invention During 500 Years of Reformation, Refo500 – RefoRC, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj
  • 2011.09.9–11: 22nd International Biblical Conference of Szeged, Wisdom Literature, Szeged.
  • 2011.07.26 – 28: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, The Apocryphal Gospels within the Context of Early Christian Theology, Leuven.
  • 2008.10. 28-31:  Paul Ricoeur: Poetics and Religion. International Conference, KUL, Leuven
  • 2008.08.5-7: Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, The Composition of the Book of Psalm, Leuven
  • 2008.05.31-06.02: Third TRES conference (Teaching Religion in a multicultural European Society), Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
  • 2007.07.31 –08.04: 62nd General Meeting Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), Lucian Blaga University Sibiu
  • 2007.11.7-10: Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST VI), Leuven
  • 2007.07. 25-27, Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense, The Letter to the Romans, Leuven.
  • 2007.06.14-17: Second TRES conference (Teaching Religion in a multicultural European Society), Cluj, BBU
  • 2007.03.21-23: Otherworlds: Representations of Heaven and Hell in the Bible and Apocrypha, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.
  • 2006.12.4-6: Specialists’ Symposium on the Septuagint Translation, Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism (K.U.Leuven)
  • 2002.03. Globalization and Catholic Higher Education. Hopes and Challenges, FIUC, Vatican
  • 2001.09.2-5: Annual International Biblical Conference Szeged Mission of Love. Mission of Paul, Szeged
  • 2000.09. 1-4.: Annual International Biblical Conference Szeged Power and charisma, Szeged
  • 1999.08.30-09.02.: Annual International Biblical Conference Szeged: Qumran and the NT, Szeged
  • 1998.08.31-09.03: Annual International Biblical Conference Szeged Exegesis of Miracle Narratives, Szeged.
  • 1997 June: 2nd Ecumenical European Meeting, Graz, Austria.
  • 1996.11.: Conference of Bioethics, Vatican

Kurzbibliografie

BOOKS

  • Men and Women in the Household of God. A Contextual Approach to Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles (NTOA 103), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
  • A katolikus-protestáns viszony Erdélyben a 20. században. Az egyháztani párbeszéd recepciójának korlátai (The Catholic-Protestant Relations in Transylvania and the Limits of the Reception of the Ecclesiological Dialogue), Cluj: Presa Universitara Clujeană, 2008.
  • A katolikus-protestáns egyháztani párbeszéd eredményei (Thr Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue in the 20th Century. Limits of the Reception of the Ecclesiological Dialogue), Cluj: Presa Universitara Clujeană, 2007.
  • Katolikusok és protestánsok. Történelmi visszatekintés és teológiai párbeszéd (Catholics and Protestants. Historical Retrospective and Theological Dialogue), Cluj: Studium, 2002.

EDITED VOLUMES

  • Julia Snyder, Korinna Zamfir, with Spencer Healey, Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts, Leuven: Peeters, 2020.
  • Bodó Márta, Csonta István, Lukács Ottilia, Zamfir Korinna, Ünneplő ember a közösségben. Baráti köszöntőkötet Nóda Mózes tiszteletére, Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2019.
  • A II. vatikáni zsinat maradandó időszerűsége. Ötven évvel a zsinat után (The Lasting Actuality of Vatican II. Fifty Years After the Council), edited by Mózes Nóda, Korinna Zamfir, Márta Bodó (Catholic Academy Series), Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2014.
  • Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and Early Christian Literature (WUNT 2.268), edited by Joseph Verheyden, Korinna Zamfir, Tobias Nicklas, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
  • Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity In Honour of Hans Klein (DCLS 6), edited by Tobias Nicklas and Korinna Zamfir, with Heike Braun, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
  • Ideje az emlékezésnek. Liber amicorum: A 60 éves Marton József köszöntése (There is a Time to Remember. Liber amicorum: FS for József Marton on his 60th Anniversary), Nóda Mózes, Zamfir Korinna, Dávid Diósi, Bodó Márta, Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2010.
  • Reading the ‘Political’ in Jewish and Christian Texts, edited by Korinna Zamfir and Julia Snyder, to appear in Biblical Tools and Studies, Leuven: Peeters (to appear in 2019).

UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOKS

  • Újszövetségi exegézis (New Testament Exegesis), Cluj: Mega, 2014, 252 pp. (ISBN 978-606-543-548-3).
  • Ószövetségi exegézis (Old  Testament Exegesis),  Cluj: Presa Universitara Clujeană, 2008, 277 pp. (ISBN 978-973-610-732-0).
  • Ökumenikus teológia (Ecumenical Theology), Cluj: Presa Universitara Clujeană, 2007, 234 pp. (ISBN 978-973-610-574-6).

STUDIES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND VOLUMES

Forthcoming

  • "Beware of him, for he strongly opposed our message!" Antagonisms and Identity-Construction in 2 Timothy, in Stefan Alkier (ed.), Antagonismen in neutestamentlichen Schriften. Studien zur Neuformulierung der "Gegnerfrage" jenseits des Historismus (Beyond Historicism – New Testament Studies Today, Volume: 1), Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2021)
  • When a Catholic Bishop Defends Protestant Marriage. Marriage and Catholic-Protestant Relationships in Transylvania in the 18th Century, in Gábor Csilla, Nóda Mózes, Zamfir Korinna (red.), The Challenges and Cultures of Change in Transylvania, 16th-18th Centuries, (Refo500 Academic Studies), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (forthcoming, 2021).
  • Speech, Authority and Gender in 1 Timothy 2. 11–14, in Roberta Franchi, Aneilya Barnes (eds.), More than Female Disciples: An Examination of Women’s Authority in Ancient Christianity (Ist-VIth centuries), Turnhout: Brepols.

2020

  • Reading Motherhood in the Pastoral Epistles in the Light of Ancient Discourses on Mothers and Maternity, in Ute E. Eisen, Heidrun Elisabeth Mader (eds.), Talking God in Society: Multidisciplinary (Re)Constructions of Ancient (Con)Texts. Festschrift for Peter Lampe. Vol. 2: Hermeneuein in Global Contexts: Past and Present (NTOA / StUNT 120/2), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, 185-201.

  • Reading the 'Political' in Jewish and Christian Texts: An Introduction, in Julia Snyder, Korinna Zamfir, with Spencer Healey, Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 1-18.
  • 'Ezt cselekedjétek az én emlékezetemre!' Emlékezés és rituális újragondolás az eucharisztikus ünneplés alap-vető szövegeiben, Pannonhalmi Szemle 2 (2020) 6-21 (CEEOL).

2019

  • The Deviantisation of Asceticism and Marriage. The Case of 1 Timothy and the Acts of Thecla, in Christos Pinakoulas, Η γυναικα στη Βιβλο (The Woman in the Bible. Proceedings of the Symposium of the Hellenic Bible Society. 13-14 December 2019), Athens: Ελληνικη Βιβλικη Εταιρια, 2020, 193-202.
  • Eusebeia, Soteria and Civic Loyalty in the Pastoral Epistles, in 'Make Disciples of All Nations'. The Appeal and Authority of Christian Faith in Hellenistic-Roman Times, ed. by Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Beth Langstaff, and Michael Tilly, (WUNT 2.482), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 121-141.
  • Exegesis in a Multi-ethnic and Multi-confessional Region. Challenges and Responsibilities, in Christentum und Europa | XVI. Europäischer Kongress für Theologie (10.–13. September 2017 in Wien), ed. Michael Meyer-Blanck, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019, 404-423.
  • Excluding Women from Public Religious Roles in 1 Timothy – a Jewish Influence?, in Keleti tanulmányok és vallásközi párbeszéd. Írások Szécsi József tiszteletére / Oriental Studies and Interfaith Dialogue Essays in Honour of József Szécsi, ed. Hidvégi Máté, Budapest: L`Harmattan, 2019, 239-253.
  • Kora keresztény eucharisztiák és közösségi identitások az apokrif cselekedetek tükrében, in Bodó Márta – Csonta István – Lukács Ottilia – Zamfir Korinna, Ünneplő ember a közösségben. Baráti köszöntőkötet Nóda Mózes tiszteletére, Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2019, 328–350.
  • Shipwrecked, Enemies and Deserters? The Opponents and their Function in the Pastoral Epistles and the Acts of Paul and Thecla, in Gegenspieler Zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gegner in frühjüdischer und urchristlicher Literatur, ed. Michael Tilly, Ulrich Mel, (WUNT 428), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 281–310.

2018

  • Returning Women to Their Place? Religious Fundamentalism, Gender Bias and Violence Against Women, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 51.1 (2018) 3-20.
  • Érvénytelen protestáns egyházi szolgálat? Megfontolások az egyházi szolgálatról a reformátorok írásai és az ökumenikus dokumentumok tükrében (Invalid Protestant Orders? Considerations on Ministry in Light of the Writings of the Reformers and the Ecumenical Documents), in Puskás Attila, Perendy László, Hoványi Márton, Reformáció és ökumenikus párbeszéd. Teológiai tanulmányok (Reformation and Ecumenical Dialogue. Theological Studies) (Varia Theologica 9), Budapest: Szent Istvan Társulat, 2018, 243-283.

2017

  • Elusive Opponents in the Pastoral Epistles, in Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas, with Elisabeth Hernitscheck (eds.), Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence. The Search for Early Christian Groups and Movements (WUNT 388), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, 2-48.
  • Exegesis in a Multi-ethnic and Multi-confessional Region. Challenges and Responsibilities, in Sacra Scripta (Volume in Honour of Ulrich Luz for his 80th Anniversary) 1-2 (2017) 51-68 (CEEOL, EBSCO).
  • The Departing Paul. Some Reflections on the Meaning of Spendomai and its Early Christian Reception, in Ephemerides Theo­logicae Lovanienses 93.1 (2017) 75-94. (WoS, Arts and Humanities; ERIH INT 1).

2016

  • Reference-Text-Oriented Allusions, in B.J. Oropeza, Steve Moyse, Exploring Intertextuality: Diverse Strategies for New Testament Interpretation of Texts, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books / Wipf & Stock, 2016, 242-252 (with Joseph Verheyden).
  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla - Ecclesial, Social and Political Context, in Ephemerides Theo­logicae Lovanienses 92.3 (2016) 355-380 (WoS, Arts and Humanities; ERIH INT 1).

  • Fénelon and the Education of Girls. A Short Note on Some Enduring Ancient Topoi, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2016) 71-86 (EBSCO; CEEOL).
  • Üdvösség a házasság vagy a szüzesség útján? A pasztorális levelek és a Tekla-cselekedetek vitája (Salvation Through Marriage or Through Virginity? The debate in the Pastoral Epistles and the Acts of Thecla), in Frankó Tamás, 'Kincseibol régit és újat': Ünnepi kötet Gaál Endre 70. születésnapjára, Esztergom: Esztergomi Hittudományi Főiskola, 2016, 127-143.
  • Interpretarea biblica si predarea disciplinelor biblice: O perspectiva catolica si ecumenica (Interpreting and Teaching the Bible: A Catholic and Ecumenical Perspective), in Alexandru Ionita (ed.), Interpretarea biblica între Biserica si Universitate: perspective interconfesionale, Cluj: Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2016, 401-433.

2015

  • Women Teaching - Spiritually Washing the Feet of the Saints? The Early Christian Reception of 1 Timothy 2:11-12, Annali di storia del esegesi 2 (2015) 353-379 (ERIH).
  • The Community of the Pastoral Epistles – A Religious Association, in Vincent Gabrielsen; Christian A Thomsen (ed.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010, Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015, 206-240.

  • Metaphors and Perceptions of Suffering in the Laments of the Hebrew Bible, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 2 (2015) 5-19 (EBSCO; CEEOL).
  • Transcending Confessional Borders. The Ecumenical Vocation of Roger Schutz, in Konfluenzen: Jahrbuch der Fakultat für Evangelische Theologie von Hermannstadt/Sibiu (2015) 207-229.
  • Összetett identitás a kora kereszténységben (Multifarious Identity in Early Christianity), in Nők az egyházban. Identitás és kommunikáció, Sapientia füzetek 27 (2015), 227-253.

  • Eusebeia, császárkultusz, polgári lojalitás. Kihívások és keresztény válaszok az első században (Eusebeia, Emperor-Cult and Civic Loyalty. Challenges and Christian Responses in the First Century), in Katolicitás és etnocentrizmus Erdélyben (eds. Marton J., Diósi D.), Kolozsvár: Verbum, 2015, 109-141.

2014

  • Is the Ekklesia a Household (of God)? Reassessing the Notion of Oikos Theou in 1 Tim 3.15, in New Testament Studies 60.4 (2014) 511- 528 (WoS; Arts and Humanities).
  • The Love of Money is the Root of all Evils. Wealth and the Well-to-do in 1 Timothy, in Benyik Gy. (ed.), The Bible and Economics. The Poor and the Rich in Biblical Texts. International Biblical Conference XXV. 22nd-24th August 2013, Szeged: JATEPress, 2014, 415-428.

  • A kér(dez)ő szenvedő Isten színe előtt. A panasz logikája és funkciója, in A szenvedő ember Isten színe előtt, editori: Puskás Attila, Perendyi László, Budapest: Szent István Társulat, 2014, 33-53.
  • 'Aki nem ismeri a Szentírást, nem ismeri Krisztust.' A Dei Verbum álláspontja a Szentírásról ('Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ'. The Constitution Dei Verbum on Scriptures), in Nóda Mózes - Zamfir Korinna - Bodó Márta, A II. vatikáni zsinat maradandó aktualitása. Ötven évvel a zsinat után (The Enduring Actuality of Vatican II. Fifty Years After the Council), Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2014, 93-124.
  • A katolikus egyház az ökumenizmus útján (The Catholic Church on the Path Toward Ecume­nism), in Nóda Mózes - Zamfir Korinna - Bodó Márta, A II. vatikáni zsinat maradandó aktualitása. Ötven évvel a zsinat után (The Enduring Actuality of Vatican II. Fifty Years After the Council), Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2014, 197-240.
  • Paradigmaváltás a bibliamagyarázatban. Tudományosság, interdiszciplinaritás, pluralizmus (Shifting Paradigms in Biblical Interpretation. Scholarly Exigency,  Interdisciplinarity, Pluralism), in Veres Károly (ed.), Paradigma(váltás) és kommunikáció (Paradigm[shift] and communication), Cluj: Egyetemi Műhely, 2014, 105-120.

2013

  • From Humble Servant to Incarnate Logos. Christology, Ethics, Apologetics and Polemics in the Early Christian Readings of Isa 52–53, in Sacra Scripta 2 (2013) 206-225 (EBSCO, CEEOL).
  • 'A Man in Suffering, Acquainted with the Bearing of Sickness'. The New Testament Reception of Isa 52–53 as a Reading of the LXX, Sacra Scripta 1 (2013) 112-136 (EBSCO; CEEOL).

2012

  • The Topos of Female Hiddenness: A Contextual Reading of 1 Tim 2,9-15, in Ephemerides Theo­logicae Lovanienses 88.4 (2012) 475-487 (DOI: 10.2143/ETL.88.4.2957938). (WoS, Arts and Humanities; ERIH INT 1)

  • A korintusi eukharisztikus lakoma az önkéntes egyesületek közös étkezéseinek tükrében (The Corinthian Eucharistic Meal from the viewpoint of Associative Comensality), in Pannonhalmi Szemle 1 (2012) 12-36 (CEEOL).
  • Once More About the Origins and Background of the New Testament, in Episkopos, Sacra Scripta 10.2 (2012) 202-222 (EBSCO; CEEOL).
  • Etosul ecumenic in predarea disciplinelor biblice. O perspectiva catolica si ecumenica (Ecumenical Ethos in Teaching Biblical Disciplines. A Catholic and Ecumenical Approach), in Revista ecumenica Sibiu / Ecumenical Review Sibiu (2012) 41-49.

2011

  1. Creation or Evolution? Hermeneutical Reflections on the Margin of the Creation Accounts, in Münchener theologische Zeitschrift 62.3 (2011) 218-235 (ERIH INT2; IxTheo).
  • Az első Timóteus levél antropológiai fejtegetéseinek kulturális háttere és célja (The Cultural Background and Purpose of the Anthropological Considerations in 1 Timothy), in Benyik György (szerk.), Testben élünk XXII. Szegedi nemzetközi biblikus konferencia (In Body We Live. 22nd International Biblical Conference in Szeged), Szeged: JATEPress, 2011, 259-278.
  • Az episzkoposz az újszövetségi iratokban (The Episkopos in New Testament Writings), in  Marton József, Oláh Zoltán (red.), Minden kegyelem. A 65 éves Jakubinyi György köszöntése, Budapest: Szent István Társulat - Cluj: Verbum, 2011, 88-104.

2010

  • Asceticism and Otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, in Tobias Nicklas, Joseph Verheyden, Florentino Garcia Martinez, Erik Eynikel (red.), Other Worlds and their Relation to this World. Early Jewish and Ancient Christian Traditions, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2010, 281-303.
  • Jeremian Motifs in the Synoptics’ Understanding of Jesus, in Joseph Verheyden, Korinna Zamfir, Tobias Nicklas, Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and Early Christian Literature, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010, 139-176.
  • Creation and Fall in 1 Timothy: A Contextual Approach, in Tobias Nicklas, Korinna Zamfir, Heike Braun, Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010, 353-387.
  • Nature and God. Bible Versus Natural Science? Some Exegetical Considerations on Gen 1-2, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2010) 3-20 (EBSCO; CEEOL).
  • Páli (kora keresztény) egyházak - önkéntes vallási egyesületek? (Pauline/Early Christian Communities – Voluntary Associations?), in Benyik György, Szent Pál és a pogány irodalom (Saint Paul and the Pagan Literature), Szeged: JATEPress, 2010, 299-330.
  • Az erdélyi római katolikus püspökség (1526-1711) (The Diocese of Alba Iulia/Transylvania [1526-1711]) in Nicolae Bocşan, Dieter Brandes, Lukács Olga (eds.), A püspöki intézmények kialakulása és fejlődése Erdélyben 1740-ig (The Establishment and Evolution of the Episcopal Institution in Transylvania up to 1740), Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2010, 39-61.

2009

  • Teaching Religion in Romania: Is there Room for Plurality?, in Hans-Georg Ziebertz, Ulrich Riegel (eds.), How Teachers in Europe Teach Religion: An International Empirical Study in 16 Countries (International Practical Theology 12), LIT, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, 2009, 181-197 (with Magda Robu).
  • Biblia és környezetvédelem: hermeneutikai és biblikus-teológiai megközelítés (Bible and Ecology. A Hermeneutical and Biblical-Theological Approach) Pannonhalmi Szemle 4 (2009) 5-20 (CEEOL).
  • Thanksgiving as Instrument of Legitimation in 1 Timothy 1,12-17, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2009) 3-14 (EBSCO; CEEOL).
  • A katolikus-református vegyes házasság kérdése Erdélyben a 20. században (Mixed Marriages in Transylvania in the 20th Century), in Marton József, Bodó Márta, Ezeréves múltunk. Tanulmányok az erdélyi egyházmegye történelméről (A Millenary Past. Studies on the Diocese of Transylvania), Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Cluj: Verbum, 2009, 235-252.

2008

  • Text-Critical and Intertextual Remarks on 1Tim 2,8-10, in Novum Testamentum 50.4 (2008) 376-406, with Joseph Verheyden (WoS, Arts and Humanities; ERIH INT 1)
  • Is There a Future for the Catholic-Protestant Dialogue? Non-reception as Challenge to Ecclesio­logical Dialogue, in Paul M. Collins, Michael A. Fahey (eds.), Receiving The Nature and Mission of the Church: Ecclesial Reality and Ecumenical Horizons for the Twenty-First Century (Ecclesiological Investigations 1), London/New York: Continuum/T&T Clark, 2008, 85-102.
  • Men and Women in the House(hold) of God. Chrysostom’s Homilies on 1Tim 2,8-15, Sacra Scripta 2 (2008) 144-164 (CEEOL)
  • Máté Jézus-képe a Jeremiás-idézetek fényében (The Matthean Representation of Jesus in the Light of the Jeremiah-quotations), in Bodó Márta (ed.) Örökérvényű igazságaink. Emlékkönyv Jakab Gábor 70. születésnapjára (Eternal Truths. FS Jakab Gábor), Cluj: Verbum, 2008, 88-99.
  • Quest for Wisdom as Quest for Identity. The Case of the Deuterocanonical Wisdom Literature, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2008) 79-89 (CEEOL).

2007

  • The Quest for the 'Eternal Feminine' An Essay on the Effective History of Gen 1−3 Regarding the Woman, in Annali di storia dell'esegesi 24.2 (2007) 501-522. (ERIH INT1, NTA)
  • Who Are (the) Blessed? Reflections on the Relecture of the Beatitudes in the New Testament and the Apocrypha, in Sacra Scripta 1 (2007) 70-95 (NTA, CEEOL).
  • The Importance of Healing of Memories in Transylvania. A Roman Catholic Perspective, in Dieter Brandes (ed.), Healing of Memories in Europe. A Study of Reconciliation Between Churches, Cultures, and Religion (Reconciliatio 1), Leipzig: EVA, Cluj: Accent, 2007, 61-85 (with Mózes Nóda).
  • Jézus – törvényhozó vagy próféta? A boldogmondások hatástörténete az Újszövet­ségben és az apokrifekben (Jesus – Legislator or Prophet? The Effective History of NT and Apocryphal Beatitudes), in Benyik Gy. (ed.), Mózes törvénye − Krisztus törvénye (Law of Moses - Law of Christ), Szeged: JATEPress, 2007, 169-192.
  •  Die kirchliche Lage und die interkonfessionellen Beziehungen in Siebenbürgen von 1948-2007, in Dieter Brandes (Hg.), Die Geschichte der Christlichen Kirchen Aufarbeiten. Healing of Memories zwischen Kirchen, Kulturen und Religionen. Ein Versöhnungsprojekt der Kirchen in Rumänien (Reconciliatio 2), Leipzig: EVA / Cluj: Accent, 2007, 96-102.
  • A Princetoni Javaslat a mai ökumenikus helyzet összefüggésében (The Princeton-Proposal in the Context of the Contemporary Ecumenical Situation), in Fabiny Tibor (ed.), Egy házban élnek-e a keresztények? Magyar reflexiók a Princetoni Javaslatra (Hermeneutikai Füzetek 30), Budapest: Hermeneutikai Kutatóközpont, 2007, 150-162.
  • Situaţia Bisericilor si relaţiile interconfesionale intre 1948-2007 (Churches and Interconfessional Relations Between 1948-2007), in Dieter Brandes, Olga Lukács (ed.), Un proiect de reîmpăcare a Bisericilor. O punte intre biserici, culturi si religii, Cluj: Accent, 2007, 78-84.

2006

  • An Overview of the Catholic-Protestant Relationship in Transylvania during the 16th-17th Century, in Dieter Brandes (ed.), Istoria relaţiilor Bisericilor creştine din Transilvania (Healing of Memories. O punte intre biserici, culturi si religii) vol. 1, Cluj: Studium, 2006, 142-150.
  • Az ószövetségi nőkép néhány vonása és hatástörténete (The OT Image of the Woman and its Effective History), in Bodó Márta (ed.), Nőnek (is) teremtette. Nők  a társadalomban és az egyházban, Miercurea Ciuc: Státus (CNCSIS), 2006, 11–42.

2005

  • A pasztorális levelek szerzőségének és szogálatértelmezésének ökumenikus vonzatai (The Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles and the Ecumenical Interpretations of Ministry), in Pannonhalmi Szemle 3 (2005) 6-15 (CEEOL).
  • Some Aspects and Effective History of the Old Testament Feminine Presence, in Sacra Scripta 1-2 (2005) 45-57 (CEEOL).
  • An Overview of the Tensions Related to Mixed Marriages in Transylvania During the 18–20th Century, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 2 (2005) 71-83 (CEEOL).
  • Cultural and Socio-Psychological Aspects of Religious and Ethnic Isolation. A Case History, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2005) 83-96 (CEEOL).
  • A mélylélektani exegézis (Psychoanalytical Exegesis), in Benyik Gy. (ed.) A Biblia értelmezése (The Interpretation of the Bible), Szeged: JATEPress, 2005, 205-235.

2004

  • Ecumenical Implications of the Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles for the Understanding of Ministry, in Sacra Scripta 2 (2004) 153-166 (CEEOL).
  • Jeremiás szolgálata az üdvösségközvetítő intézmények válsága idején (Jeremiah’s Ministry During the Crisis of Religious Institutions), in Benyik Gy. (ed.) Világi közösség - vallási közösség (Secula Community - Religious Community), Szeged: JATEPress, 2004, 287–303.

2003

  • The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel: Encounter of the Greek Philosophical Thought and the Judaic Tradition, in Sacra Scripta 1 (2003) 128–157 (CEEOL).
  • Az eukarisztia áldozati jellege a katolikus-protestáns párbeszédben (The Sacrificial Character of the Eucharist in the Ecumenical Dialogue), in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2003) 87-94 (CEEOL).

2002

  • Az eukarisztia értelmezése a Limai Dokumentumban (The Interpretation of the Eucharist in the Lima Document), in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2002) 109-134 (CEEOL).
  • A vegyes házasság okozta feszültségek Erdélyben a 18. században (Tensions Associated with Mixed Marriages in Transylvania in the 18th Century), in Ioan Chirilă (ed.), Biblie şi multiculturalitate. Dinamica graniţelor culturale ale Europei determi­nată de traducerea şi circulaţia textului sacru, Cluj: Limes&Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2004, 154-170, and Partiumi Egyetemi Szemle 2 (2002) 57–68.

2001

  • Az ökumenizmus katolikus és protestáns perspektívából (Catholic and Protestant Perspectives on Ecumenism), in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 1 (2001) 71-111 (CEEOL).

OTHER ARTICLES

  • 'Megérteni mindenkit és mindent, ami az emberben van'. Roger testvér életútja (Understanding everything and all that is in humans. The Life of Frere Roger), Keresztény Szó 10 (2015) 1-6.
  • A Prédikátor, az öröm tanítója (Qohelet, the Teacher of Joy), Keresztény Szó 8 (2015) 7-9.
  • Páli (kora keresztény) egyházak – önkéntes vallási egyesületek? (Pauline / Early Christian Churches – Private Religious Associations?), Keresztény Szó 1 (2010) 1-7.
  • Der Geist von Taizé machte es möglich, in Klaus Nientiedt (ed.), Taizé  - Weltdorf für innere Abenteuer, Freiburg: Herder, 2008, 73-77.
  • A veszélyesen gyenge nő. A nőkkel szembeni előítéletek néhány szellemtörteneti vonatkozása (The Dangerously Weak Woman. Considerations Related to the Geistgeschichte of the Precon­ceptions Regarding Women), Korunk 3 (2007) 36-51
  • Rolul Cartei Ecumenice in promovarea ecumenismului european si local: o perspectivă catolică (The Ecumenical Charta and its Contribution to European and Local Ecumenism: A Catholic Perspective), Caietele Institutului Catolic 6.2 (2005-2006), 203-218.
  • A könyv mint forrás (The Book as Sources), Református Szemle (Journal of the Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj) 99.1 (2006) 124-126.
  • Geschichte der Römisch Katholischen Kirche in Siebenbürgen, Dokumentation EPD Frankfurt 40 (2005) 21-36.
  • Implicaţiile ecumenice ale problemei autorului epistolelor pastorale pentru înţelegerea ministerului ecleziastic (The Ecumenical Implications of the Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles for Understanding Ministry), Caietele Institutului Catolic (Bucureşti) 1 (2005) 89–102.
  • Suferinţă mântuitoare sau iubire cu preţul suferinţei? (Redeeming Suffering or Love at the Cost of Suffering?) Theologia Biblica 2 (2003) 23-25.
  • A János-prológus ószövetségi gyökerei (The OT-Roots of the Johannine Prologue), Jeromos Füzetek (Journal of the Hungarian Bible Society) 43 (2001) 10-21.
  • Ökumenizmus Erdélyben (Ecumenism in Transylvania), in Jakabffy Tamás (ed.), Beszéd a láthatatlanról. Teológiai és egyháztörténeti írások (Speaking of the Invisible. Studies in Theology and Church History) (Keresztény Szó könyvek 2), Cluj: Gloria, 2001, 235-247.
  • Az Ige emberré lett (The Word Became Flesh), Keresztény Szó 12 (2000) 1-6.
  • Valóban feltámadt az Úr, Keresztény Szó 4 (1999) 1-6.
  • Mi (nem) az ökumenizmus?, Keresztény Szó 2 (1999) 32.
  • Test vagy lélek?, Keresztény Szó 10 (1996).
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REVIEWS

  • Cilliers Breytenbach, ed. Paul’s Graeco-Roman Context (BEThL 277), Leuven: Peeters, 2015, in Louvain Studies 40 (2017): 333-354 doi: 10.2143/LS.40.3.0000000
  • Joram Luttenberger, Prophetenmantel oder Bücherfutteral?: Die persönlichen Notizen in den Pastoralbriefen im Licht antiker Epistolographie und literarischer Pseudepigraphie, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2012, RBL 3/9/2016, www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8970_9887.pdf
  • James Dunn, The Oral Gospel Tradition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013, ETL 4 (2015) 689-691.
  • Van Hecke, Pierre, Antje Labahn (eds.). Metaphors in the Psalms (BETL 231), Leuven: Peeters, 2010, ETL 91.2 (2015), 343.
  • Goodrich, John K., Paul as an Administrator of God in 1 Corinthians, (SNTS MS 152) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, RBL 05.2014,

www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8683_9544.pdf

  • Johnson, Matthew V., James A. Noel, Demetrius K. Williams, Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Culture in Philemon, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012,  Review of Biblical Literature  10/2013, www.bookreviews.org/pdf/8557_9377.pdf
  • Ciampa, Roy E. - Brian S. Rosner, The First Letter to the Corinthians (The Pillar New Testament Commentary), Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, Review of Biblical Literature  02/2012 www.bookreviews.org/pdf/7856_8579.pdf
  • Dobos, Károly Dániel - Miklós Köszeghy (eds.), With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich, Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2009, Review of Biblical Literature  01/2012, www.bookreviews.org/pdf/7512_8197.pdf
  • Bjelland Kartzow, Marianne, Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009 Review of Biblical Literature  7 (2011) www.bookreviews.org/pdf/7637_8354.pdf
  • Yarbrough, Mark M., Paul's Utilization of Preformed Traditions in 1 Timothy: An Evaluation of the Apostle's Literary, Rhetorical, and Theological Tactics, New York: T&T Clark, 2009 Review of Biblical Literature  4 (2011) www.bookreviews.org/pdf/7552_8248.pdf
  • von Lips, Hermann, Timotheus und Titus: Unterwegs für Paulus, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2008, Review of Biblical Literature  1 (2010) www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6849_7421.pdf
  • Smith, Craig A., Timothy’s Task, Paul’s Prospect: A New Reading of 2 Timothy (NTM 12), Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2006, EThL 85.1 (2009), 190–194.
  • Bouteneff, Peter, Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives, Review of Biblical Literature 7 (2009) www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6766_7330.pdf
  • Towner, Philip H.: The Letters to Timothy and Titus (NICNT), Grand Rapids, Mi / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2006, Louvain Studies 34 (2009) 83-88
  • Fiore, Benjamin, The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus (Sacra Pagina), Collegeville, MN.: Liturgical Press, 2007, in Review of Biblical Literature 10 (2008), www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6157_6582.pdf.
  • Osiek, Carolyn, Margaret Y. MacDonald, Janet H. Tulloch, A Woman’s Place. House Churches in Earliest Christianity, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006, in Sacra Scripta 1 (2008) 98-100.
  • van der Watt, Jan G., Review of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA, SBL, vol. 8 (2006), in Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniense 83 (2007) 475-478.
  • Klein, Ralph W., 1 Chronicles (Hermeneia) Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006, in A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 13 (2008). rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol13/Klein2008rev.pdf
  • Hamilton, Mark W., Thomas H. Olbricht, and Jeffrey Peterson, eds., Renewing Tradition: Studies in Texts and Contexts in Honor of James W. Thompson (Princeton Theological Monograph Series), Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, 2006, in Review of Biblical Literature 1 (2008), www.bookreviews.org/BookDetail.asp
  • Mustakallio, Antti, Heikki Leppä and Heikki Räisänen, Lux Humana, Lux Aeterna: Essays on Biblical and Related Themes in Honour of Lars Aejmelaeus, Review of Biblical Literature in Review of Biblical Literature 8 (2007), www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp
  • Brodie, Thomas L., Dennis R. MacDonald, Stanley Porter (eds.), The Intertextuality of the Epistles. Explorations of Theory and Practice (New Testament Monographs 16), Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006, in Review of Biblical Literature 7 (2007), www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp
  • van der Horst, Pieter W., Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context. Selected Essays on Early Judaism, Samaritanism, Hellenism, and Christianity (WUNT 196), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006 , Sacra Scripta 1 (2007)104-106
  • Farmer, William R., Sean McEvenue, Armando J. Levoratti, David L. Dungan (eds.), André LaCocque (map editor); Joseph Pathrapankal, Erik Eynikel (Indian edition): The International Bible Commentary, in Sacra Scripta 1-2 (2005) 105-106.
  • Theißen, Gerd: Die Religion der ersten Christen. Eine Theorie des Urchristentums, Sacra Scripta 1-2 (2005) 199-201.
  • Geréb Zsolt, A Thesszalonikabeliekhez írt levelek magyarázata, Keresztény Szó 10.5 (1999).
  • Diósi Dávid, Qumrán és az őskeresztények (Qumran and Early Christianity), Keresztény Szó 10.5 (1999).
  • Congar, Yves, Szeretem az egyházat (Cette Église que j’aime), Keresztény Szó 8.7 (1997) 27-28.
  • Békés Gellért, Krisztusban mindnyájan egy (All One in Christ), Keresztény Szó 7.2 (1996) 21.

TRANSLATIONS

  • J. Jensen, W. H. Irwin, Isaiah 1–39, (R. E. Brown; J. A. Fitzmyer; R. E. Murphy (edts.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, 1990, 229-248), in: Jeromos Bibliakommentár I, Budapest, 2002, 365–393.
  • G. P. Couturier, Jeremiah, (R. E. Brown; J. A. Fitzmyer; R. E. Murphy (edts.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, 1990, 265-297), in: Jeromos Bibliakommentár I, Budapest, 2002, 417–462.
  • C. Stuhlmueller, Deutero-Isaiah and Trito–Isaiah (R. E. Brown; J. A. Fitzmyer; R. E. Murphy (edts.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, 1990, 265-297), in: Jeromos Bibliakommentár I, Budapest, 2002, 509–537.
  • J. Murphy-O’Connor, The First Letter to the Corinthians; The Second Letter to the Corinthians, 798-829. (R. E. Brown; J. A. Fitzmyer; R. E. Murphy (edts.), The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Englewood Cliffs, 1990, 265-297), in: Jeromos Bibliakommentár I, Budapest, 2003, 339–384. 

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Pastoral Epistles
  • Apocryphal Acts (Acts of Thecla)
  • Women in early Christianity
  • Hermeneutics and gender roles
  • Catholic-Protestant dialogue


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