Korinna Zamfir

@rocateo.ubbcluj.ro

Professor, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
Babes-Bolyai University



                    

https://researchid.co/kori_zamfir

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

10

Scopus Publications

287

Scholar Citations

7

Scholar h-index

7

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Suing for Peace at Any Cost? Reading the Parable of the Two Kings (Luke 14.31-2) in Times of War
    Korinna Zamfir
    Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    AbstractThe 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.


  • Returning women to their place? Religious fundamentalism, gender bias and violence against women




  • Women teaching-spiritually washing the feet of the Saints? the early Christian reception of 1 Timothy 2:11-12


  • Is the ekkle¯sia a household (of god)? Reassessing the notion of in 1 Tim 3.15
    Korinna Zamfir
    Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    1 Timothy defines theekklēsiaas the οἶκος θεοῦ. This has led to the conclusion that the Pastoral Epistles regard theekklēsiaas an enlargedoikos, where the roles of the officials and the norms regulating the behaviour of its members reproduce the relationships of the patriarchal household. However, οἶκος θεοῦ is not a household properly speaking.Ekklēsiais a term with political connotations, and thus the community acquires a public dimension. In addition,oikosis used metaphorically, for a larger community. In this, the definition reflects the ancient custom of describing larger communities (the cosmos, thepolis, or an association) through the metaphor of theoikos. Theekklēsiais therefore a public, quasi-cosmic space, whose laws and structures receive divine legitimation.


  • Asceticism and otherworlds in the acts of Paul and thecla
    K. Zamfir
    BRILL
    Although at a first glance the Acts of Paul and Thecla may seem nothing more than naive hagiography, written to provide edification and encouragement, the work actually promotes distinctive theological views. The premise of this essay is that both the discourse material and the narrative are meant to express a system of beliefs. The introductory words to Paul's speech in Iconium and the subsequent beatitudes summarise the doctrine conveyed by the narrative. First, the eschatological perspective involves the expectation of a future resurrection. Second, this expectation is intimately linked to asceticism as a precondition and pledge for future heavenly beatitude. Third, the life and aptitudes of the main characters anticipate the qualities of the glorified humanity that will be possessed in its fullness in the afterlife. The representation of the otherworlds in the APTh is rather uncomplicated in terms of spatial imagery. Keywords: asceticism; otherworlds; Paul; spatial imagery; Thecla

  • Text-critical and intertextual remarks on 1 Tim 2:8-10
    Korinna Zamfir and Joseph Verheyden
    Brill
    AbstractAfter reassessing the various ways of dealing with the ellipsis in 1 Tim 2:9, it is argued that βoνλoμαι πρoσενχεσαι offers a plausible resolution. Yet the ambiguity of the text suggests that 1 Tim 2:8-15 resulted from using several sources. The intertextual analysis shows that 1 Timothy very likely used as a pre-text the cultic rule found in 1 Cor 11 and its context. A second pre-text consists of a station code tradition and of Neo-Pythagorean exhortations. This complex intertextual enterprise allows 1 Tim to "correct" Paul's more permissive attitude regarding the role men and women can play in public worship.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Reading Women in the New Testament Letters
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    SBL Press 2025

  • Women as Teachers and Learners in the Corpus Paulinum
    K Zamfir
    Reading Women in the New Testament Letters 2 (80), 243 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 2, 29 2025

  • Introducing Women in the New Testament Letters
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    Reading Women in the New Testament Letters 2025

  • Las cartas del Nuevo Testamento
    K Zamfir, U Poplutz
    Editorial Verbo Divino 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

  • 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

  • Ritual Reinvention and the Celebration of the Eucharist in Times of Crises
    K Zamfir
    Religious Responses to Pandemics and Crises: Isolation, Survival, and 2023

  • CHRISTIANS AS SOLDIERS OF CHRIST. MILITARY METAPHORS IN BASIL OF CAESAREA
    K ZAMFIR
    Sacra Scripta 21 (1-2), 181-197 2023

  • Frauen als Lehrende und Lernende im Corpus Paulinum
    K Zamfir
    Die Bibel und die Frauen; Band 2, 2: Neues Testament: Neutestamentliche 2023

  • Ein Blick hinter den Topos der huslichen Frau: Arbeit, Euergetismus und religise Rollen in der griechisch-rmischen Welt
    K Zamfir
    Die Bibel und die Frauen; Band 2, 2: Neues Testament: Neutestamentliche 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

  • Rereading Gospel Traditions in the Acts of Theda: The Dilemma of the Beatitudes
    K Zamfir
    The Gospels and their receptions, 479-500 2022

  • Women's Vocation and Ministry according to Titus: Ethical Issues and Their Contemporary Relevance
    K Zamfir
    Mohr Siebeck 2022

  • Neutestamentliche Briefe. Die Bibel und die Frauen
    U Poplutz, K Zamfir
    Kohlhammer 2022

  • GUSZTV KOVCS, THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN ETHICS
    K ZAMFIR
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Theologia Catholica Latina 67 (2), 116-117 2022

  • “WHEN HE ARRIVED IN ROME, HE EAGERLY SEARCHED FOR ME!”(2 TIM 1, 17) FRIENDS, FOES, AND NETWORKS IN 2 TIMOTHY
    K Zamfir
    Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai-Theologia Catholica Latina 67 (2), 65-88 2022

  • “You, Man of God, Pursue Righteousness”: The Reception of 1 Timothy 6: 11 in Some Third and Fourth Century Writers
    K Zamfir
    Bibel und Patristik, 261-275 2021

  • Reading Motherhood in the Pastoral Epistles in the Light of Ancient Discourses on Mothers and Maternity
    K Zamfir
    Talking God in Society: Multidisciplinary (Re) constructions of Ancient (Con 2021

  • Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Dating the Pastoral Epistles
    K Zamfir
    Die Datierung neutestamentlicher Pseudepigraphen, 313-354 2021

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
    Gttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013
    Citations: 87

  • Returning women to their place? Religious fundamentalism, gender bias and violence against women
    K Zamfir
    Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 17 (51), 3-20 2018
    Citations: 21

  • 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
    Citations: 21

  • Prophets and prophecy in Jewish and early Christian literature
    T Nicklas, K Zamfir, J Verheyden
    Mohr Siebeck 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
    Citations: 14

  • Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity: In Honour of Hans Klein
    T Nicklas, K Zamfir
    Walter de Gruyter 2010
    Citations: 12

  • 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
    Citations: 11

  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Ecclesial, Social and Political Context
    K Zamfir
    Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 92 (3), 355-380 2016
    Citations: 6

  • The Community of the Pastoral Epistles—A Religious Association
    K Zamfir
    Private Associations in the Public Sphere, 206-240 2015
    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
    Citations: 6

  • Elusive opponents in the Pastoral Epistles
    K Zamfir
    Shadowy Characters and Fragmentary Evidence, 27-48 2017
    Citations: 5

  • 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
    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
    Citations: 5

  • Jeremian Motifs in the Synoptics’ Understanding of Jesus
    K Zamfir
    Prophets and Prophecy in Jewish and Early Christian Literature, 139-176 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
    Citations: 5

  • Reference-Text-Oriented Allusions
    K Zamfir, J Verheyden
    Exploring Intertextuality. Diverse Strategies for New Testament 2016
    Citations: 4

  • Creation and Fall in 1 Timothy: A Contextual Approach
    K Zamfir
    Theologies of Creation in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity, 353-387 2010
    Citations: 4

  • Biblia s krnyezetvdelem. Hermeneutikai s biblikus-teolgiai megkzelts
    K ZAMFIR
    Pannonhalmi Szemle 17 (4), 5-20 2009
    Citations: 4

  • A veszlyesen gyenge nő. A nővel szembeni előtletek nhny szellemtrtneti vonatkozsa
    K Zamfir
    Korunk, 36-51 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
    Citations: 4