Dr Emmanuel Nathan

BA, MA, STB, MAS, STL, PhD, STD (KU Leuven)

Dr. Emmanuel Nathan is a lecturer in biblical studies (New Testament) at the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy. He has just joined the faculty from Belgium where he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Catholic University of Leuven. His doctoral research was a study of Paul’s ‘new covenant’ language in Second Corinthians viewed in terms of the later parting of the ways between Judaism and Christianity. His post-doctoral research focused on studying Paul’s language of affliction and suffering from the perspective of disability studies. He has also recently been studying whether Paul’s use of prophetic motifs can be better understood within a framework of evolving notions of prophecy in Second Temple Jewish movements.

Recent Publications

“Betwixt and Between Old and New: The Glorified (Veiled) Moses at Sinai and Corinth.” Relationships Between the Two Parts of the Christian Bible: Historical, Literary, and Theological Studies, ed. G. Steins and J. Taschner, Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2014 (forthcoming).

“Fragmented Theology in 2 Corinthians: The Unsolved Puzzle of 6:14-7:1.” Theologizing in the Corinthian Conflict: Studies in Exegesis and Theology of 2 Corinthians, ed. R. Bieringer, M. Ibita, D. Kurek-Chomycz and T. Vollmer,  Biblical Tools and Studies, Leuven: Peeters, 2013, 211-228.

“Memories of the Veil: The Covenantal Contrasts in Christian-Jewish Encounter.” Cultural Memory in Biblical Exegesis, ed. P. Carstens, N.P. Lemche and T.B. Hasselbalch, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012, 359-380.

“Paul, Moses, and the Veil: Paul’s Perspective on Judaism in Light of 2 Corinthians 3.” Paul’s Jewish Matrix, ed. T. Casey and J. Taylor, Rome: G&B Press, 2011, 201-228.

Selected Publications

New Perspectives on Paul and the New Covenant in 2 Cor 3. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014 (forthcoming).

2 Corinthians in the Perspective of Late Second Temple Judaism. CRINT 14, Leiden: Brill, 2014 (in press) [with R. Bieringer, D. Pollefeyt and P. Tomson].

Provoked to Speech: Biblical Hermeneutics as Conversation. Leuven: Peeters, 2014 [with R. Bieringer, R. Burggraeve and M. Steegen].

2 Corinthians: A Bibliography, Biblical Tools and Studies 5. Leuven: Peeters, 2008 [with R. Bieringer and D. Kurek-Chomycz].

Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, Ethics, Interfaith dialgoue

Biblical Theology, Biblical hermeneutics, Scriptural reasoning, Disability theology. 
Pauline literature (Corinthian correspondence: Louvain school – Lambrecht and Bieringer). Biblical hermeneutics (Gadamer and Ricoeur). New directions in biblical theology (Bieringer and Segovia). Disability theology (Avalos, Schipper, Lawrence, Reinders, Yong). Interreligious hermeneutics/biblical reasoning (Ochs, Ford, Clooney, Moyaert).

Biblical Studies, Biblical hermeneutics, World Religions and Interfaith Dialogue.

• Society of Biblical Literature
• European Association of Biblical Studies
• The Institutum Iudaicum, Centre Interuniversitaire d’Etudes Judaïques, Belgique