Research
In my PhD research (published by De Gruyter in the series Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung), I wrote the scholarly history of Codex Vaticanus in New Testament textual criticism, tracing and describing changes, developments, and its reception between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. My monograph received recognition from international peers, including being granted the prestigious Lautenschläger Award 2025.
Several of my articles also illustrate how I approach texts, manuscripts, and perceptions among scholars from a historical perspective. In addition, I am interested in the interactions between texts and contexts, migration studies and their application to theology, Bible translation and missiology, as well as hermeneutics. These have been performed in my teaching and some of my more recent publications.
Currently, I am working on a multi-year interdisciplinary research project exploring the dynamics between palimpsest manuscripts, religion, and the use and misuse of technology in the long nineteenth century. Part of this research is being realised thanks to the Mare Balticum Fellowship (Universität Rostock, Germany; 2026) and the TOP Grants (Taiwanese National Science and Technology Council; 2026-2027).
Actively serving the scholarly community, I am a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS), the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS), the Studiosorum Novi Testamenti Conventus (SNTC), and the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER). Additionally, I am Associate Editor for two international journals: TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism (SBL) and Yearbook of Contextual Biblical Interpretation (AUP), both of which are Open-Access, leading journals in their fields.
In addition to the list of publications, some of my forthcoming and in-preparation works include:
- “Intersection between Sacred Texts and Technology: Historical Cases from the Nineteenth Century,” editing a guest issue for Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts (forthcoming).
- “The History of New Testament Textual Criticism in the Low Countries” (forthcoming).
- “Erasmus and His Reception of the Gospel of John” (forthcoming).
- “Teaching, Interpreting, and Embodying the Bible in the Age of Migration” (in preparation).
- An edited volume on Codex Vaticanus from various perspectives (editing together with Jesse R. Grenz; in preparation).
