Teaching Profile

Undergraduate course in New Testament Greek and Textual Criticism, graduate courses on Apocalypticism and translation techniques in the history of the transmission of the Bible (MA level), NOSTER PhD seminar for the field of Biblical Studies (together with prof. Klaas Spronk).

Research Profile

Prof. Lietaert Peerbolte focuses in his research two topics in particular. On the one hand, there is the development of Christianity, its ideas and forms, out of the context of Hellenistic Judaism. On the other hand, there is the transmission and modern reconstruction of the text of the New Testament (textual criticism). The apostle Paul is one of the main points of his attention, but recently emphasis has shifted towards an interdisciplinary approach of the shaping of Christian paideia in the first two centuries.

Selected Publications

Monographs:

Paulus en de rest. Van farizeeër tot profeet van Jezus (Zoetermeer: Meinema).

together with Severino Dianich, Fino agli estremi confini. La missione nella testimonianza biblica e nella fede cristiana (Torino: Società San Paolo, 2011).

Paul the Missionary (CBET 34; Leuven, Parijs, Dudley MA: Peeters, 2003); (Italian version: Paolo il missionario, Torino 2006) 

The Antecedents of Antichrist. A Traditio-Historical Study of the Earliest Christian Views on Eschatological Opponents (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 49; Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 1996).

Selected Articles:

With Leendert F. Groenendijk, ‘Family Discourse, Identity Formation, and the Education of Children in Earliest Christianity’, Annali di storia dell’esegesi 33/1 (2016), 129-149.

With Bart L.F. Kamphuis, Jan L.H. Krans, Silvia Castelli, ‘Sleepy Scribes and Clever Critics. A Classification of Conjectures on the Text of the New Testament’, Novum Testamentum 57 (2015), 72-90.

‘Morality and Boundaries in Paul’, in: J. Kok, T. Nicklas, D.T. Roth, C.M. Hays (eds.), Sensitivity Towards Outsiders (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014), 209-224. 

‘Paul’s Rapture: 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the Language of the Mystics’, in: Frances Flannery, Colleen Shantz, Rodney A. Werline (eds.), Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (Experientia 1; Atlanta: SBL; Leiden etc.: Brill, 2008), 159-176. 

‘Jewish Monotheism and Christian Origins’, in: Alberdina Houtman, Albert de Jong, Magda Misset-van de Weg (eds.), Empsychoi Logoi. Religious Innovations in Antiquity. Studies in Honour of Pieter Willem van der Horst (AJEC/AGAJU 73; Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008), 227-246 

‘Paul and the Practice of Paideia’, in: Rieuwerd Buitenwerf, Harm W. Hollander, Johannes Tromp (eds.), Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity. Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge (SNT 130; Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008), 261-280.

Contact

Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam

E-Mail: l.j.lietaertpeerbolte@vu.nl

Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lj-lietaert-peerbolte