The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels
Coordinators: Joseph Verheyden & Gilbert Van Belle
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Description
The Centre was founded in September 2010. Its goal is to promote research on the gospels within the broader context of New Testament studies as a whole. While the coordinators and those connected with the Centre wish to keep an open mind on the variety of methods and approaches that currently mark gospel studies in general, its members will primarily focus their attention on historical-critical and source-critical issues, the vocabulary and the style of the gospels, textual criticism, the Jewish and Hellenistic background, and the history of exegesis.
The Centre will apply for funding of research projects in these areas with the appropriate instances and will organise expert meetings and conferences on specific topics. The Centre is integrated in the Research Unit Biblical Studies of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University Leuven and is located in the Faculty Library.
Ceramics (Max Van der Linden)
Members
- Gilbert Van Belle (KU Leuven)
- Joseph Verheyden (KU Leuven)
- Cilliers Breytenbach (HU-Berlin)
- Ismo Dunderberg (Helsinki)
- Jörg Frey (Zürich)
- John S. Kloppenborg (Toronto)
- Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg)
- Christopher M. Tuckett (Oxford)
Recent publications
- J. Verheyden, "Proto-Luke, and What Can Possibly Be Made of It", in: P. Foster, A. Gregory, J. Kloppenborg, J. Verheyden J. (eds.), New Studies in the Synoptic Problem. Oxford Conference, April 2008. Essays in Honour of Christopher M. Tuckett, Leuven: Peeters, 2011, 617-654.
- G. Van Belle, "Peter as Martyr in the Fourth Gospel", In: J. Leemans (Eds.), Martyrdom and Persecution in Late Antique Christianity. Festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter, Leuven: Peeters, 2010, 281-309.
- J. Verheyden, T. Nicklas, E. Eynikel, F. García Martínez (eds.), Other Worlds and Their Relation to This World. Early Jewish and Christian Traditions, Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2010.
- G. Van Belle, "L’unité littéraire et les deux finales du quatrième évangile", in: Studien zum Matthäus und Johannes / Études zur Matthieu et Jean. Festschrift für Jean Zumstein zu seinem 65. Geburtstag / Mélanges offerts à Jean Zumstein pour son 65e anniversaire (Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 97) Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2009, 297-315.
- J. Verheyden, K. Zamfir, T. Nicklas (eds.), Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and early Christian Literature (WUNT II/286), Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2010.
- J. Verheyden, "Luke and Acts - The Early Years: Some Comments in the Margin of a Recent Monograph", in: A. Gregory, K. Rowe (eds.), Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Luke and Acts, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2010, 97-117.
- G. Van Belle, "Repetitions and Variations in the Fourth Gospel: Style, Text, Interpretation", in: G. Van Belle, M. Labahn, P. Maritz (eds.), Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 223. Leuven: Peeters, 2009.
- G. Van Belle (ed.), The Death of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel, Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
Conferences
Expert meeting “Christ and the Emperor” (December 2011)
Studying the question of how the gospels reflect various positions with regard to the Roman Empire and its representatives in developing and proclaiming the Christian message. A limited number of papers were read and discussed.
