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Reimund Bieringer (born 1957) is a German theologian, biblical scholar, Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium, and a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Speyer in Germany. The main areas of his research include the Second Letter to the Corinthians (exegesis and theology), the Gospel of John (Anti-Judaism and the Gospel of John; Mary Magdalene and the Noli me tangere), and biblical hermeneutics (normativity of the future).

Education and academic career

Bieringer first studied theology at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, and then continued his studies at the Faculty of Theology of the KU Leuven, Belgium, where he defended his doctorate in 1986.^[1] His doctoral dissertation presents an exegesis of 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 in its epistolary context^[2] and is partially published in Studies on 2 Corinthians.^[3]

In 1988 he was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, and served in a parish in Rodalben as assistant priest until 1990, when he was appointed as a full-time staff member of the Faculty of Theology (now Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies) at KU Leuven.^[1] Between 2008 and 2012 he served as Vice-Dean for Research of that faculty. Since 2014 he has been the coordinator of the Biblical Studies Research Unit^[4]. He was also the co-founder and is currently the head of the Faculty’s Centre for Women’s Studies Theology.^[5] He also chairs the Research Group Exegesis, Hermeneutics and Theology of the Corpus Paulinum and Corpus Johanneum. Since 2011, he has been serving as the secretary of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense.^[1]

Between 2012 and 2015 Bieringer served as the President of the European Association of Biblical Studies^[6] and is currently the President of the Flemish Bible Society. He is also the secretary of Colloquium Oecumenicum Paulinum, and in 2010 served as its President.

Contribution to Biblical Studies

Reconciliation and 2 Corinthians

The theology and the background of Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians have belonged to Bieringer’s main research interests since the beginning of his academic career. He is known to be one of the long-standing defenders of the letter’s unity and integrity.^[7]^[8]

In his doctoral work,^[2] supervised by Jan Lambrecht, and in subsequent publications, he has argued that the genesis of Paul’s use of the concept of reconciliation in reference to the divine-human relationship in 2 Cor 5:14-21 is to be sought in Paul’s theological reflection on his personal experience of an initial reconciliation with the Corinthians.^[9]^[10] Bieringer has also suggested that, as opposed to the traditional understanding of καταλλάγητε (katallagēte) in 2 Cor 5:20d as passive, the verb has here a reflexive meaning and thus could be translated as "reconcile yourselves to God" rather than "be reconciled to God".^[11]

In a paper presented at the 2008 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Boston, Bieringer proposed the term “theology in the making” to refer to the process whereby Paul’s everyday life experiences and the resources at his disposal led to the development of Paul’s profound theological insights.^[12] This paper constituted also an introduction to the series of seminar sessions on Second Corinthians: Pauline Theology in the Making, to take place every year at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, from 2008 to 2019.

Some of Bieringer’s insights on reconciliation in 2 Corinthians were taken over and developed in a doctoral dissertation by Ivar Vegge, published subsequently in the WUNT series.^[13]

Normativity of the Future

In 1996 Bieringer began to develop an eschatological-oriented biblical hermeneutics, which came to be known as the normativity of the future approach.^[14] In dialogue with the theologian Mary Elsbernd (1946-2010) from Loyola University (Chicago) and their respective students, they elaborated this approach in the publication Normativity of the Future: Reading Biblical and Other Authoritative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective.^[15] The normativity of the future approach is rooted in a dialogical perspective on God's revelation, both through the Scriptures and the "signs of the times". Incorporating a variety of scholarly biblical methodologies, it focuses subsequently on the world behind, the world of, and especially the world before the text.

The approach traces the explicit or implicit eschatological vision(s) in a given biblical passage (such as the kingdom of God, the new heaven and the new earth, etc.) and seeks out the moral qualities of the text: its inclusive and exclusive dimensions, its pneumatological clues, its traces of the virtue of hope and its ethical demands. The normativity of the future approach also incorporates the hermeneutical meta-questions regarding the interpreter, the interpretive process and results, and their impact on communities, especially those who are oppressed.^[16]

To date, Bieringer continues to cultivate this approach, researching how Scriptures are used in various ways, such as in religious education in Australia^[17] and in interdisciplinary theologizing in a contextual manner.

Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel

In collaboration with Didier Pollefeyt, Reimund Bieringer further developed the normativity of the future approach in the context of Jewish-Christian dialogue. Their joint project on the alleged anti-Jewish tendencies in the Fourth Gospel (esp. in John 8:31-59) resulted in the Leuven colloquium on Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel in 2000 and has remained a research focus ever since.^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21] In 2016 their project in collaboration with Peter De Mey resulted in an expert seminar about The Spirit, Hermeneutics and Dialogues (Leuven, 25-27 May 2016).^[22]^[23]

Mary Magdalene and Feminist Approaches to the Fourth Gospel

Bieringer's research in John's Gospel and his use of a feminist lens in biblical studies paved the way for an interdisciplinary research project on John 20:1-17 entitled "Mary Magdalene and the Touching of Jesus. An Intra- and Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Interpretation of John 20:17 in Exegesis, Iconography and Pastoral Care, Research Foundation Flanders, 2005-2008." The research results were distributed through several articles and an edited volume on the topic, as well as radio interviews, lectures, debates and an exhibition on the image of Mary Magdalene and the iconography of the Noli me tangere.^[24]^[25]^[26]

Paul and Judaism

Bieringer’s research also focuses on the question of continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity in Paul’s time. The interdisciplinary project “New Perspectives on Paul and the Jews” investigated the role of Pauline theology in the process of Christian self-definition with respect to the Judaism of its time and dealt with the implications for present day Jewish-Christian dialogue.^[27]

Prizes and awards

Select Works

Books

as Editor

Articles and Chapters

External Links

References

1. ^¹²{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/apps/researchers/Bieringer/|title=Faculteit Theologie en Religiewetenschappen - Researchers|last=Baekel|first=Stijn Van|website=theo.kuleuven.be|access-date=2018-04-30}}
2. ^¹{{Cite book|title=“Lasst euch mit Gott versöhnen”: Eine exegetische Untersuchung zu 2 Kor 5,14-21 in seinem Kontext, 4 vols.|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=Leuven|pages=text: pp. i-cxxviii + 1-722; footnotes: pp. 1-400.}}
3. ^{{Cite book|title=Studies on 2 Corinthians|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=Lambrecht|first2=Jan|publisher=University Press – Peeters|year=1994|isbn=|series=BETL|location=Leuven|pages=}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/research_units/ru_bible|title=Research Unit Biblical Studies|website=theo.kuleuven.be|language=en|access-date=2018-04-30}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/unit/50000126|title=KU Leuven organisational chart - Centre for Women's Studies Theology|website=www.kuleuven.be|language=en|access-date=2018-04-30}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.eabs.net/EABS/About/People/Committee/EABS/About/People/Committee.aspx|title=Committee|last=Inc.|first=Advanced Solutions International,|website=www.eabs.net|language=en|access-date=2018-04-30}}
7. ^{{Cite book|title=Studies on 2 Corinthians|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=University Press - Peeters|year=1994|isbn=|location=Leuven|pages=131-179|chapter=Plädoyer für die Einheitlichkeit des 2. Korintherbriefes: Literarkritische und inhaltliche Argumente}}
8. ^{{Cite book|title=Second Corinthians in the Perspective of Late Second Temple Judaism|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=Brill|year=2014|isbn=|location=Leiden|pages=11-24.}}
9. ^{{Cite journal|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|date=1987|title=2 Kor 5,19a und die Versöhnung der Welt|url=|journal=ETL|volume=63|pages=295-326|via=}}
10. ^{{Cite book|title=Paulus - Werk und Wirkung: Festschrift für Andreas Lindemann zum 70. Geburtstag|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|year=2013|isbn=|location=Tübingen|pages=61-80|chapter=Divine-Human Reconciliation in 2 Cor 5:18-21 in its Interpersonal Context: The Contextual Meaning of the καταλλάσσω/καταλλαγή Terminology in 2 Corinthians}}
11. ^{{Cite book|title=Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity: Studies in Honour of Henk Jan de Jonge|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=|year=2008|isbn=|location=Leiden|pages=11-38|chapter=Reconcile Yourselves to God’: An Unusual Interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5:20 in its Context}}
12. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_Abstracts.aspx?MeetingId=12|title=Looking Over Paul's Shoulder: 2 Corinthians Evidence for Paul's Theology in the Making|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|date=2008|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
13. ^{{Cite book|title=2 Corinthians – a Letter about Reconciliation: A Psychagogical, Epistological and Rhetorical Analysis|last=Vegge|first=Ivar|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|year=2008|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
14. ^{{Cite journal|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|date=1997|title=The Normativity of the Future: The Authority of the Bible for Theology|url=|journal=ET Bulletin. Zeitschrift Für Theologie in Europa|volume=8|pages=52-67|via=}}
15. ^{{Cite book|title=Normativity of the Future: Reading Biblical and Other Authoritative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=Elsbernd|first2=Mary|publisher=Peeters|year=2010|isbn=|location=Leuven|pages=}}
16. ^{{Cite book|title=Normativity of the Future: Reading Biblical and Other Authoritative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=Elsbernd|first2=Mary|publisher=Peeters|year=2010|isbn=|location=Leuven|pages=3-25|chapter=Introduction: The ‘Normativity of the Future Approach’: Its Roots, Development, Current State and Challenges}}
17. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/faculties,_institutes_and_centres/theology_and_philosophy/theology/ecsi/After_the_Data|title=After the Data: Transforming Religious Education through Scripture|website=www.acu.edu.au|language=en|others=Dan Toomey|access-date=2018-04-30}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/apps/johnandthejews/|title=John & the Jews <> Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel|website=theo.kuleuven.be|access-date=2018-04-30}}
19. ^{{Cite book|title=Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=Pollefeyt|first2=Didier|last3=Vandecasteelde-Vanneuville|first3=Frederique|publisher=Westminster John Knox|year=2001|isbn=|location=Louisville, KY|pages=}}
20. ^{{Cite book|title=Anti-Judaism and the Fourth gospel. - Papers of the Leuven colloquium, 2000|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=Pollefeyt|first2=Didier|last3=Vandecasteelde-Vanneuville|first3=Frederique|publisher=Van Gorcum|year=2001|isbn=|location=Assen|pages=}}
21. ^{{Cite book|title=John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|publisher=SBL Press|year=2017|isbn=|location=Atlanta, GA|pages=243-263|chapter=Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel Fifteen Years after the Leuven Colloquium}}
22. ^{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/research_units/ru_bible/seminar-spirit-hermeneutics-dialogues|title=The Spirit, Hermeneutics and Dialogues|website=theo.kuleuven.be|language=en|access-date=2018-04-30}}
23. ^{{Cite book|title=The Spirit, Hermeneutics and Dialogues|last=Bieringer|first=Reimund|last2=De Mey|first2=Peter|last3=Ibita|first3=Ma. Marilou S.|last4=Pollefeyt|first4=Didier|publisher=Peeters|year=2018|isbn=|location=Leuven|pages=}}
24. ^{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/apps/nolimetangere/6/|title=Mary Magdalene - Noli me tangere • The Noli me tangere Research Project|website=theo.kuleuven.be|access-date=2018-04-30}}
25. ^{{Cite web|url=https://theo.kuleuven.be/apps/nolimetangere/4/|title=Mary Magdalene - Noli me tangere • Activities Mary Magdalene Project|website=theo.kuleuven.be|access-date=2018-04-30}}
26. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/page/mary-magdalene/|title=Mary Magdalene: One Person, Many Images|work=Godsdienstonderwijs.be|access-date=2018-04-30|language=nl}}
27. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/787843596|title=Paul and Judaism : crosscurrents in Pauline exegesis and the study of Jewish-Christian relations|date=2012|publisher=Continuum International Pub|others=Bieringer, R. (Reimund), Pollefeyt, Didier.|isbn=9780567447326|location=London|oclc=787843596}}
28. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47072963|title=When love is not enough : a theo-ethic of justice|last=1946-|first=Elsbernd, Mary,|date=2002|publisher=Liturgical Press|others=Bieringer, R. (Reimund)|isbn=0814659608|location=Collegeville, Minn.|oclc=47072963}}