Chair

Reimund Bieringer (born in 1957) is Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, K.U.Leuven. He studied theology at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Frankfurt-St. Georgen, Germany, and at the Faculty of Theology of the K.U.Leuven, where he defended his doctorate in 1986. His dissertation focused on an exegesis of 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 in its epistolary context and is partially published in Studies in 2 Corinthians.

He was ordained a priest in his home diocese of Speyer in 1988 and served as an assistant priest in a parish from 1988 until 1990. Since 1990 he has been a full-time staff member at the Faculty of Theology in Leuven. He teaches New Testament Exegesis, Biblical Hermeneutics, Women’s Studies and Biblical Greek. The main areas of his research are the Second Letter to the Corinthians (exegesis and theology), the New Testament and Judaism (Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of John, Paul and Judaism), the New Testament and art history/iconography (Mary Magdalene and the Noli me tangere; the Haemorrhoissa), and biblical hermeneutics (normativity of the future).

Reimund Bieringer is a member of a number of scientific societies (SNTS, EABS, SBL, SNTC, Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschsprachigen katholischen Neutestamentler, Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum). He is the President of the Flemish Catholic Bible Society (Vlaamse Bijbelstichting). He is a member of the Research Unit Biblical Studies, and is Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, K.U.Leuven.