Updates / publications
Event5 until 10 July 2026Summer School: Divine Leadership?! Politics, Spirituality and the BibleThe course focuses on the question “How do people in diverse communities use the Bible in relationship to establish, critique or conceive of leadership within and from Christian communities?”
Article16 April 2026Biblical Studies and Spiritual Care: Intersections of Pastoral Praxis and Biblical HermeneuticsIn response to the lack of a coherent interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of biblical studies and spiritual care, Silvia Castelli and Peter-Ben Smit have initiated and are currently chairing the SBL Annual Meeting program unit Biblical Studies and Spiritual Care: Intersections of Pastoral Praxis and Biblical Hermeneutics.
- Article24 March 2026An-Ting Yi Mare Balticum Fellow (Rostock)We are pleased to announce that Dr. An-Ting Yi, one of the researchers at the Centre for Contextual Bible Interpretation, has been selected as a Mare Balticum Fellow of the University of Rostock, Germany. This research fellowship allows Dr. Yi to develop his research project, “Religion and Technology: Perspectives and Developments in New Testament Textual Scholarship,” in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Soham Al-Suadi, Professor of New Testament, and her team in Rostock. “It is a great privilege to receive this opportunity.” Dr. Yi says, “Prof. Al-Suadi’s expertise in New Testament studies and textual scholarship will definitely strengthen my research, and the international and interdisciplinary environment at the University of Rostock can broaden the scope of my investigation. I am sincerely grateful to the University of Rostock and the School of Religion and Theology of the Vrije Universiteit for creating space for this.”
Book editing15 October 2025Masculinities in the New Testament and BeyondThe study of gender in early Christianity has been one of the catalysts for new historical insight into the early Jesus movement and beyond. By focusing on the construction of various kinds of masculinities in early Christian texts, both biblical and extra-biblical, and by showcasing a number of examples of the reception of such texts in the construction and discussion of masculinities, the essays collected in this volume draw attention to a kind of gender that is often in equal measure overlooked as it is influential in the shaping of communities and societies, i.e., masculinities in all their diversity and with their different effects on those embodying them and those encountering them. The volume seeks to contribute to the study of early Christian literature and its reception, to the study of gender in the (Christian) theological tradition, and to gender studies in general.
Book editing1 September 2025‘Through the Eyes of the Child: Exploring Childist Theology and Contextual Interpretation’, Yearbook of Contextual Biblical Interpretation 1
Book editing19 July 2024Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context
Book editing1 January 2022Opstandig Leven
Book editing1 January 2022Building bridges towards a more humane society- Special issue (editing)1 September 2021Themanummer Bijbelinterpretatie - Kerk en Theologie
Book editing1 September 2020De schepping in het midden
Special issue (editing)1 September 2019Bijbel en ‘beperking’. Contextuele en Missiologische Perspectieven
