prof. dr. Arie Zwiep

I. My major books/monographs

• Auf dem Weg zu einer Biographie Gerhard Kittels (1888–1948). History of the Bible and Exegesis. Edited by Lukas Bormann and Arie W. Zwiep. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. ix + 574pp. (more info)

• Jairus’s Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman: Tradition and Interpretation of an Early Christian Miracle Story. WUNT 421. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019. xxvi + 454pp. (more info)

• Tussen tekst en lezer: Een historische inleiding in de bijbelse hermeneutiek, deel 1: de vroege kerk - Schleiermacher. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2009, zesde druk 2025. xxv + 453pp.; deel 2: Van moderniteit naar postmoderniteit. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2013, zesde druk 2025. xvii + 573pp. (more info)

• Christ, the Spirit and the Community of God: Essays on the Acts of the Apostles. WUNT 2/293. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. xviii + 237pp. (more info)

• Judas and the Choice of Matthias: A Study on Context and Concern of Acts 1:15–26. WUNT 2/187. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. xxi + 270pp. (more info)

• The Ascension of the Messiah in Lukan Christology. NovTSup 87. Leiden: Brill, 1997. xiii + 291pp. (more info)

II. My recent publications (selected)

• “De historische Jezus op z’n retour of terug van (nooit) weggeweest? Methodologische reflecties op de zoektocht naar Jezus van Nazaret.” Kerk en Theologie 74/4 (2023): 337–356 (more info); 75/1 (2024): 1–19 (more info).

• “Toen Johannes in de gevangenis niet over het optreden van de Messias hoorde’ (Matt. 11:2): De wederwaardigheden van een opmerkelijke conjectuur (cj16154) en zijn bedenker.” Kerk en Theologie 72/3 (2023): 264–283 (more info).

• Bijbel: met bijdragen over geloof, cultuur en wetenschap. NBV21. Onder redactie van Gijsbert van den Brink, Koert van Bekkum, Anne-Mareike Schol-Wetter en Arie Zwiep. Haarlem/Antwerpen: Nederlands-Vlaams Bijbelgenootschap, 2022. 1667pp. ("Wetenschapsbijbel"). (more info)

• “A Question of Misunderstanding or a Misunderstood Question? Exegetical Comments on Acts 1:6.” Pages 247–262 in Asking Questions in Biblical Texts. Edited by Bart J. Koet and Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen. CBET 114. Louvain: Peeters, 2022. 

• “Identity Matters in the Book of Revelation: The Rhetorical Device of Σύγκρισις as a Key to Its Structure and Message.” Pages 427–448 in Troubling Texts in the New Testament: Essays in Honour of Rob van Houwelingen. Edited by Myriam Klinker-De Klerck, Arco den Heijer, and Jermo van Nes. CBET 113. Louvain: Peeters, 2022.

• “Een kwestie van hermeneutiek? (Un)zeitgemäße bespiegelingen over heilige teksten en hun lezers in het spoor van Gadamer, Betti en Thiselton." Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar hermeneutiek bij de Faculteit Religie en Theologie van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam op 10 maart 2022. (more info)

• "Haggadic Motifs in the Acts of the Apostles: A Search for Traces of the Tradition of the Elders in Acts 1–3." Pages 307–333 In Haggadah in Early Judaism and the New Testament. Edited by Roger Aus. WUNT 461. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.

III. My forthcoming publications

• Biblical Hermeneutics between Text and Reader: A History of Interpretation. HUT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming,

• "Luke-Acts." Chapter 22 in The Miraculous in the Biblical Traditions. Edited by Graham H. Twelftree. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

• "Rapture." in vol. 26 of Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, ed. Brennan Breed et al. Berlin: de Gruyter, forthcoming (december 2026).

• "Mapping the Study of New Testament Hermeneutics in the Netherlands (1980-Present)." Chapter 16 in Miscellanea Neotestamentica III: Contextual Studies on the Occasion of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Low Countries’ New Testament Conventus. Edited by Myriam Klinker-de Klerck and Bart Koet. NovTSup. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

"Bultmanns Erbe und die gegenwärtige Hermeneutik: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven." Vortrag zum Thema Rudolf Bultmann: Prägungen-Kontroversen-Perspectiven. Konturen eines neuen Bultmannbildes anlässlich des 50. Todesjahres, 15-17. Juli 2026 (Marburg), Lukas Bormann und Philipp David.

I studied theology and religious studies at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Louvain, Belgium (lic. theol., 1987, doctoral studies, 1987-1990). I wrote my lic. thesis on the hermeneutic theory of the Italian philosopher of law Emilio Betti (1987) and a second thesis during my doctoral studies on the history of New Testament interpretation (1990). I received my PhD from the University of Durham, UK (now Durham University) in 1996. My Doctoral Dissertation on The Ascension of the Messiah in Lukan Christology was supervised by Prof James D.G. Dunn and published in 1997 by Brill in the NovTSup series. Since then, I have worked and taught on Luke-Acts, the Synoptic Gospels and in the field of Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics.

My recent teaching includes courses on all academic levels: PhD Seminar on New Testament Studies (PhD); Hermeneutics, Community Formation and the Ethics of Interpretation (MA); Exegese Nieuwe Testament: Synoptische Evangeliën (BA); Jezus en de evangelisten (JB); Bijbelexegese: Handelingen van de apostelen (BA); Rudolf Bultmann’s New Testament Theology: Context, Content, Consequences and Concern (MA); Bijbelse Theologie: Nieuwe Testament (BA); Exegesis New Testament: First Peter (ReMa), Exegesis New Testament: Acts of the Apostles (ReMa), and many more.

• Kerk en Theologie | Utrecht | voorzitter redactie | 2017-09-01 - present

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