Korinna Zamfir

Biography

Professor at the Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (Taught disciplines: Exegesis, Ecumenical Theology, Psychopathology)

Degrees and qualifications
Degree in Medicine (1992, Cluj)
Degree in Catholic Theology (1998, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology)
Doctorate in Theology: 2005, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj (The Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue and its Limited Reception from the Perspective of 20th Century Interconfessional Relations in Transsylvania)
Postdoctoral research: 2007-2009: Catholic University of Leuven ( Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles)
Habilitation 2012: University of Regensburg (Dissertation: Men and Women in the Household of God. A Contextual Approach of Male and Female Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles)

Research interests: Pastoral Epistles, Acts of Thecla, Early Christianity and Private Associations; Catholic-Protestant Ecclesiological Dialogue
Main publications (EN):
1. 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.
2. 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, edited by Michael Tilly, Ulrich Mell (WUNT 428), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 281–310.
3. 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
4. The Departing Paul. Some Reflections on the Meaning of Spendomai and its Early Christian Reception, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 93.1 (2017) 75-94.
5. The Elusive Opponents in the Pastoral Epistles, in Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence. The Search for Early Christian Groups and Movements, edited by Joseph Verheyden, Tobias Nicklas, with Elisabeth Hernitscheck, (WUNT 388), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, 27-48.
6. The Acts of Paul and Thecla - Ecclesial, Social and Political Context, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 92.3 (2016) 355-380
7. Is the ekklesia a household (of God)? Reassessing the notion of oikos Theou in 1 Tim 3.15, New Testament Studies 60.4 (2014) 511- 528.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Text-Critical and Intertextual Remarks on 1Tim 2,8-10, Novum Testamentum 50.4 (2008) 376-406, with Joseph Verheyden