Korinna Zamfir

@rocateo.ubbcluj.ro

Professor, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
Babes-Bolyai University

Korinna Zamfir


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EDUCATION

2012 Habilitation (New Testament Hermeneutics and Exegesis), Theologische Fakultät / Universität Regensburg / Regensburg, Deutschland
2005 PhD (Theology), Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology / Babeş-Bolyai University / Cluj, Romania
1998 Degree in Theology, Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology / Babeş-Bolyai University / Cluj, Romania
1998 Specialisation in Neurology, Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine/ Cluj, Romania
1992 Degree in medicine, Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy /Faculty of Medicine/ Cluj, Romania

RESEARCH INTERESTS

New Testament, Pastoral Epistles, Early Christian Literature, Acts of Paul and Thecla
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Scopus Publications

322

Scholar Citations

7

Scholar h-index

7

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Discourses on Women and Gender in the Corpus Paulinum
    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Wunt I, 2024
  • Suing for Peace at Any Cost? Reading the Parable of the Two Kings (Luke 14.31-2) in Times of War
    Korinna Zamfir
    New Testament Studies, 2024
    The paper re-examines the parable of the king pondering about engaging in war with a more powerful enemy (Luke 14.31–2), focusing on questions commonly asked in antiquity and still relevant today with respect to war and suing for peace. These regard the cause of the war and the reasons for fighting, the tension between bravery and wisdom, the circumstances that may contribute to the defeat of a superior army and the costs of peace making. I explore this parable in the context of other Lukan passages touching on the topic of war and peace. I challenge the assumption that Luke was a pacifist, and I argue that the parable cannot provide answers to contemporary questions about the ethics of peace and war.
  • Ritual Reinvention and the Celebration of the Eucharist in Times of Crises: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives
    Korinna Zamfir
    Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises Isolation Survival and Covidchaos, 2023
    During crises, both Judaism and emerging Christianity have adapted worship to changed circumstances through a process of ritual transference. The significance of no longer accessible rites and sacred spaces was transferred to new rites and spaces. This led to the invention of the Passover Seder following the destruction of the Second Temple and of the early Eucharistic meal after the death of the founding figure. In the process, remembrance enabled a spiritual, virtual communion with foundational events, overcoming temporal and spatial distance. These developments may inform attempts to cope with contemporary crises (pandemics, wars) that prevent access to the sacred space and the customary performance of worship. One such solution is the virtual celebration of the Eucharist via narrowcasting platforms allowing real-time, interactive participation. This requires a new understanding of sacred space and the emergence of a theological concept of sacred virtuality. Sacred virtuality involves the conviction that divine power (virtus) remains effective in digital environments, transcending physical distance in ways comparable to the ability of remembrance to allow sharing in past foundational events.
  • Women’s Vocation and Ministry according to Titus Ethical Issues and Their Contemporary Relevance
    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Wunt I, 2022
  • Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Dating the Pastoral Epistles
    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Wunt I, 2021
  • Shipwrecked, Enemies and Deserters? The Opponents and their Function in the Pastoral Epistles and the Acts of Paul and Thecla
    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Wunt I, 2019
  • Returning women to their place? Religious fundamentalism, gender bias and violence against women
    Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2018
  • Elusive Opponents in the Pastoral Epistles
    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Wunt I, 2018
  • The Departing Paul: Some reflections on the meaning of Spendomai and its early Christian reception
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 2017
  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla ecclesial, social and political context
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 2016
  • Women teaching-spiritually washing the feet of the Saints? the early Christian reception of 1 Timothy 2:11-12
    Annali Di Storia Dell Esegesi, 2015
  • Is the ekkle¯sia a household (of god)? Reassessing the notion of in 1 Tim 3.15
    Korinna Zamfir
    New Testament Studies, 2014
  • The topos of female hiddenness: A contextual reading of 1 Tim 2,9-15
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 2012
  • Asceticism and otherworlds in the acts of Paul and thecla
    K. Zamfir
    Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2010
  • Text-critical and intertextual remarks on 1 Tim 2:8-10
    Korinna Zamfir, Joseph Verheyden
    Novum Testamentum, 2008

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Roles and Ministries in the Ekklēsia from the Perspective of the Pastoral Epistles
    K Zamfir
    Seminarios sobre los ministerios en la Iglesia 71 (237), 255-271 , 2025
    2025
  • THE FAILURE OF ECUMENISM IN THE FACE OF THE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE.
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina 70 (2) , 2025
    2025
  • Introducing Women in the New Testament Letters
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    Reading Women in the New Testament Letters , 2025
    2025
  • Reading Women in the New Testament Letters
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    SBL Press , 2025
    2025
  • Women as Teachers and Learners in the Corpus Paulinum
    K Zamfir
    Reading Women in the New Testament Letters 78 (80), 243 , 2025
    2025
  • Looking beyond the Topos of the Domestic Woman: Work, Euergetism, and Religious Roles in the
    K Zamfir
    Reading Women in the New Testament Letters, 29 , 2025
    2025
  • ENGAGING WITH SOME VIOLENT TEXTS IN LUKE IN CONVERSATION WITH HANS KLEIN
    K Zamfir
    Sacra Scripta 23 (1-2), 204-216 , 2025
    2025
  • Las cartas del Nuevo Testamento
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    Editorial Verbo Divino , 2024
    2024
  • „Megmutatom szentségemet”(Lev 10, 3). Tanulmányok a Szent megmutatkozásairól: Nóda Mózes 65. születésnapjára [“I Will Show Myself Holy”(Lev 10, 3). Essays on the …
    K Zamfir
    Studia Theologica Transsylvaniensia Supplemntum , 2024
    2024
  • SOME LESSONS FROM THE MEDIEVAL RECEPTION OF THE ACTS OF THECLA IN THE LIGHT OF THE LATIN MANUSCRIPTS
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Theologia Catholica Latina 69 (1), 47-81 , 2024
    2024
  • Suing for peace at any Cost? reading the parable of the two Kings (Luke 14.31–2) in times of war
    K Zamfir
    New Testament Studies 70 (1), 1-22 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Frauen als Lehrende und Lernende im Corpus Paulinum
    K Zamfir
    Die Bibel und die Frauen; Band 2, 2: Neues Testament: Neutestamentliche … , 2023
    2023
  • Ein Blick hinter den Topos der häuslichen Frau. Arbeit, Euergetismus und religiöse Rollen in der griechisch-römischen Welt
    K Zamfir
    Die Bibel und die Frauen; Band 2, 2: Neues Testament: Neutestamentliche … , 2023
    2023
  • Ritual Reinvention and the Celebration of the Eucharist in Times of Crises
    K Zamfir
    Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises: Isolation, Survival, and … , 2023
    2023
  • CHALLENGES TO THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE. AN INTRODUCTION.
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Theologia Catholica Latina , 2023
    2023
  • Oda Wischmeyer (szerk.): A bibliai hermeneutikák. Órigenésztől napjainkig
    K ZAMFIR
    Református Szemle 116 (1), 94-96 , 2023
    2023
  • CHRISTIANS AS SOLDIERS OF CHRIST. MILITARY METAPHORS IN BASIL OF CAESAREA
    K Zamfir
    Sacra Scripta 21 (1-2), 181-197 , 2023
    2023
  • CONCILIARITY IN WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES TEXTS. INTERSECTIONS, INTERACTIONS, SPECIFIC EMPHASES
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Theologia Catholica Latina 68 (2), 6-32 , 2023
    2023
  • Neutestamentliche Briefe. Die Bibel und die Frauen
    U Poplutz, K Zamfir
    Kohlhammer , 2022
    2022
  • GUSZTÁV KOVÁCS, THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN ETHICS
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Theologia Catholica Latina 67 (2), 116-117 , 2022
    2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Men and Women in the Household of God: A Contextual Approach to Roles and Ministries in the Pastoral Epistles (NTOA 103)
    K Zamfir
    Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 95
  • Returning women to their place?: religious fundamentalism, gender bias and violence against women
    K Zamfir
    Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 27
  • Is the ekklēsia a Household (of God)? Reassessing the Notion of οἶκος θεοῦ in 1 Tim 3.15
    K Zamfir
    New Testament Studies 60 (4), 511-528 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 26
  • Prophets and prophecy in Jewish and early Christian literature
    T Nicklas, K Zamfir, J Verheyden
    Mohr Siebeck , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 18
  • Text-critical and intertextual remarks on 1 Tim 2: 8-10
    K Zamfir, J Verheyden
    Novum Testamentum 50 (4), 376-406 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 17
  • Asceticism and Otherworlds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
    K Zamfir
    Other Worlds and their Relation to this World. Early Jewish and Ancient … , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 12
  • Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity: In Honour of Hans Klein
    T Nicklas, K Zamfir
    Walter de Gruyter , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 12
  • Elusive opponents in the Pastoral Epistles
    K Zamfir
    Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence, 27-48 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 6
  • Once more about the origins and background of the New Testament Episkopos
    K Zamfir
    Sacra scripta 10 (2), 202-222 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 6
  • The Quest for the ‘Eternal Feminine’ An Essay on the Effective History of Gen 1−3 Regarding the Woman
    K Zamfir
    Annali di storia dell'esegesi 24 (2), 501-522 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 6
  • The Departing Paul. Some Reflections on the Meaning of Spendomai and its Early Christian Reception
    K Zamfir
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 93 (1), 75-94 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 5
  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Ecclesial, Social and Political Context
    K Zamfir
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 92 (3), 355-380 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • Reference-Text-Oriented Allusions
    K Zamfir, J Verheyden
    Exploring Intertextuality. Diverse Strategies for New Testament … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • The Community of the Pastoral Epistles—A Religious Association
    K Zamfir
    Private Associations in the Public Sphere, 206-240 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 5
  • Women teaching-spiritually washing the feet of the saints?: the early Christian reception of 1 Timothy 2: 11-12
    K Zamfir
    Annali di storia dell'esegesi 32 (2), 353-379 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 5
  • Jeremian Motifs in the Synoptics’ Understanding of Jesus
    K Zamfir
    Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and Early Christian Literature, 139-176 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 5
  • MEN AND WOMEN IN THE HOUSE (HOLD) OF GOD. CHRYSOSTOM’S HOMILIES ON 1 TIM 2, 8-15
    K Zamfir
    Sacra Scripta 6 (2), 144-64 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 5
  • Creation and Fall in 1 Timothy: A Contextual Approach
    K Zamfir
    Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity, 353-387 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 4
  • A veszélyesen gyenge nő. A nővel szembeni előítéletek néhány szellemtörténeti vonatkozása
    K Zamfir
    Korunk, 36-51 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 4
  • Who are (the) Blessed? Reflections on the Relecture of the Beatitudes in the New Testament and the Apocrypha
    K Zamfir
    Sacra Scripta, 75-100 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 4