Researchers

As the Project Manager and Promotor, the task of P. Van Hecke comprises the coaching of the doctoral students and the implusing of new research. Prof. Van Hecke is specialised in Syro-Palestine studies and holds PhDs in both theology and Semitic languages. He has published in a great many international journals and series and his latest book From Linguistics to Hermeneutics. A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14 will shortly be published by Brill (see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=30991). For a survey of his academic publications, cf. lirias.kuleuven.be/cv.

His teaching assignment includes courses like Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Biblical Poetry and many others.

At present he is the Secretary-General of the European Society for Catholic Theology and the Program Director of the Dutch programme of the Faculty of Theology.

He can be contacted at: pierre. vanhecke [@] theo. kuleuven. be (without whitespace).

Hanneke is a doctoral student working on the conceptualisation of suffering in the book of Job (for a more complete description of the project, see the heading Projects). She has studied theology at the University of Tilburg (MTh) and Semitic Languages at the University of Leiden (BA). At present she is writing her PhD thesis on the use of Cogntive-Semantic methods to describe the metaphors in the Book of Job. 

Keywords: job, conceptualisation, suffering, metaphor, cognitive

Other Interests: word order, linguistics and Semitic languages.

She can be contacted at: hanneke. vanloon [@] theo. kuleuven. be (without whitespace).

Keywords: Cognitive-Linguistics, Conceptualization, War, Religious Violence, Book of Joshua

Other Interests: Old Testament theology, exegesis, ecclesiology.

She can be contacted at: jannica. deprenter [@] theo. kuleuven. be (without whitespace).

As a doctoral student Johan de Joode studies metaphors in the book of Job's description of the divine. What conceptual metaphors does the book use to describe the relation between God and Job? How are they distributed over the text and how do they redirect our interpretation (for a more complete description of this research project, see the heading Projects)? Johan has studied literature and linguistics at the University of Antwerp (MA), theology at Continental Theological Seminary (MTh) and the University of Leuven (Advanced MTh).

Keywords: conceptual metaphor, theology, job

Other Interests: computational linguistics and exegesis, pedagogy, ict.

He can be contacted at: johan. dejoode [@] theo. kuleuven. be (without whitespace).