Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
Lingüista y biblista
Estudió Lenguas Modernas en la Universidad de Londres. Tras graduarse en 1973 descubrió las maravillas del griego bíblico como una distracción mientras enseñaba inglés en África del Oeste. Cinco años después, mientras cuidaba a su hijo recién nacido, se escapaba una vez a la semana a realizar un curso que exploraba los manuscritos del Nuevo Testamento en la Universidad Católica de Lyon, Francia.
En 1985 su fascinación por los estudios bíblicos se materializó en un Máster en exégesis bíblica en Londres, seguido en 1994 de un segundo hijo y un doctorado en ciencias bíblicas, en la Universidad de Gales, focalizado en un manuscrito del Nuevo Testamento, el Códice Beza.
Desde ese momento, Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, ha saboreado la combinación de estudios históricos y lingüísticos con la investigación textual mientras enseñaba en universidades de todo el mundo. Tiene el honor de ser investigadora docente de diversas instituciones. Ha publicado un amplio abanico de trabajos de investigación centrados en el manuscrito Códice Beza, algunos en colaboración con Josep Rius-Camps. Actualmente trabaja para adaptar sus investigaciones a todo el público.
Profesora altamente cualificada con gran experiencia en lenguas y estudios bíblicos, comprometida en estimular a los alumnos para desarrollar sus puntos fuertes individuales y en estimular la excelencia. Como investigadora entusiasta y prolífica, sus intereses están repartidos entre el griego helenístico, el análisis del discurso (lingüística), la crítica textual del Nuevo Testamento y el judaísmo del Segundo Templo. Junto con la enseñanza en Reino Unido, enseña regularmente en otras universidades europeas como profesora invitada.
jgheimerdinger@gmail.com
2010
LicDD (post-doctoral diploma): University of Wales, Lampeter
Research focus: the changing portrait of the apostle Paul in his Jewish context; manuscript traditions of the Book of Acts
1994
PhD: University of Wales, Bangor
Research focus: the insights of discourse analysis applied to Greek manuscript variation
1983-85
MA (grade Distinction) Aspects of Biblical Interpretation: London School of Theology (CNAA)
Options in Hermeneutics, Exegesis, Greek Linguistics
1969-73
BA Hons (grade II i) French with English (departmental prize 1970): Royal Holloway College, University of London
1962–69
A' level French (and S level), English, Latin, General Studies: Middlesbrough High School
Further Studies and Training
2012
Welsh Proficiency: University of Wales
2007
Russian (elementary certificate): Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University
2004
Biblical Hebrew course followed: Facultés Catholiques de Toulouse, France
2001
Use of Welsh (GCSE equivalent): University of Wales
1999
Catalan for Foreigners (AS equivalent): Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain
1994
German for Modern Language Teachers course followed: Goethe Institute, London
1982-83
Course unit, L-ès-Théologie (BA equivalent), Biblical Greek and Textual Criticism: Facultés Catholiques, Lyons, France
1975–77
MTh Christian Doctrine course followed: King’s College, University of London
April 2021
Journée ACFEB sud-est, Institut Catholique de Théologie, Toulouse (invited speaker)
‘Le contexte juif du concile de Jérusalem : Actes 15
September 2020
BNTS Annual Meeting, Durham, England
‘The Structure of the Gospel of John’
November 2019
Public Meeting, Institut de Thélogie,Toulouse, France
‘L’importance des manuscrits antics du Nouveau Testament’
June 2019
Meeting to promote the ‘Codex Bezae Foundation’, Manresa, Spain (invited speaker)
‘The History of Codex Bezae’ presentation
September 2018
BNTS Annual Meeting, Twickenham, England (invited speaker)
‘The EditioCriticaMaior of Acts and the Western Text’
November 2017
SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, USA (invited speaker)
‘Hearing the Prophetic Voice of the Book of Acts’
April 2016
Journée ACFEB sud-est, Institut Catholique de Théologie, Toulouse (invited speaker)
‘L’importance des leçons variantes du Nouveau Testament’
March 2016
Annual Seminar OT in the NT, Hawarden, Wales (invited speaker)
‘The Appeal to Scriptural and Oral Traditions in the New Testament’
December 2015
AssociacióBíblica de Catalunya Annual Congress, Vic, Spain
‘Communities in the Bible: The Sadducees’
March 2015
Annual Seminar OT in the NT, Hawarden, Wales
‘James and Simeon (Acts 15.13-21): An Appeal to the Authority of Ecclesiasticus?’
November 2014
1.SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA
‘Introducing Direct Speech in Acts’ (pre-conference workshop)
2. Colloque International de philologie néotestamentaire, Aix-en-Provence, France (invited speaker)
‘L’analyse du discours au service de la critique textuelle’
September 2014
1. British New Testament Conference, Manchester, UK
‘Who are ‘We’? Clues among the Variant Readings of Acts’
2. Fourth Colloquium International Society for the Study of Biblical and Semitic Rhetoric, Rome
‘Ancient and Modern Readings of Luke’s Writings: Rhetorical Analysis and Discourse Analysis’
July 2014
Colloque Institut Universitaire de France/Sources Chrétiennes:Irénée entre Bible et hellénisme, Lyons, France (invited speaker)
‘Les liens communs entre Irénée et le Codex de Bèze (Smyrne, Lyon et le texte des Actes)’
December 2013
Associació Bíblica de Catalunya AnnualCongress, Vic, Spain
‘La parabola de la vinya en Lluc: Textes i tradicións’
November 2013
SBL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA
1. ‘Keeping Track of Participants-Use of the Article with Proper Nouns’ (pre-conference workshop)
2. ‘Presenting a New Synopsis of the Gospels: A Parallel Reading of the Synoptic Gospels
Comparing Codex Vaticanus and Codex Bezae’
3. ‘Digging Beneath the Surface: Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Navigating among the Variants
of the New Testament’
July 2013
Postgraduate Summer School, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (invited speaker)
‘Preserving Memory in Writing’
July 2011
SBL International Meeting, London, UK
‘Variety is the Spice of Scripture: Reciprocal Effects of Textual Criticism and Discourse Analysis’
December 2012
AssociacióBíblica de Catalunya Annual Congress, Vic, Spain
‘The Holy Spirit in Luke’s Writings’
December 2010
Programme doctoral de recherche en théologie, Universités romandes, Switzerland
A response to Luc Devillers, ‘Enfance de Jésus et enfance de l’église’
November 2010
Colloquium: ‘Lire et interpréter’ – Le rapport des religions aux texte fondateurs’, University of Strasbourg (invited speaker)
‘Le Codex de Bèze : un texte pré-canonique du Nouveau Testament’
June 2010
Colloquium RRENAB, University of Lausanne
‘“Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom?” Des manuscrits divers pour des lectorats divers’
November 2009
Entesajudeo-cristianade Catalunya, Barcelona (invited speaker)
‘Lluc i Teòfil, entre el judaisme i el cristianisme’
October 2009–January 2010
New Testament Study Group, Barcelona (invited lecturer)
‘Luc, un Rabi jueu?’
October 2009 International Colloquium, Instituto Romand des Sciences Bibliques, Lausanne, Switzerland(invited speaker)
Postgraduateworkshop: ‘Comment lire et interpréter un papyrus’
August 2009
Faculté de Théologie et des Sciences des Religions, Lausanne, Switzerland (invited speaker)
Postgraduateseminar:‘Le portrait de Paul selon le Codex de Bèze’
June 2009
SBL International Meeting, Rome, Italy
‘A Big Mistake: Paul’s Collection from the Gentiles’
February 2009
Chung King Memorial lecture, Hong Kong
A response to Professor M. Stone, ‘What is the Bible? New Perceptions on the Origin of the Canon’
July 2008
Greek language seminar, SNTS Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden
‘Sentence Connections as Structural Markers in the Gospel of Luke’ (with J. Rius-Camps)
June 2008
Cultural Week, Naples, Italy (invited leader)
Four public lectures on Luke-Acts,‘Una visionenuovadell’opera di Luca’ (with J. Rius-Camps)
April 2008
Post-doctoral study week seminar,University of Wales, Lampeter (invited speaker)
‘Who are “We” and What Was Our Role in Acts?’
October 2007
Postgraduate New Testament Seminar, University of Wales, Lampeter
‘Luke to Theophilus: Understanding the Apostles among Jews’
September 2007
International Colloquium, ‘Le texte biblique et son édition’, Tbilisi, Georgia
‘Luke-Acts: The Problem of Editing a Text with a Two-Fold Textual Tradition’
May 2007
Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period Seminar, Oriental Institute, Oxford (invited speaker)
‘The Jewish Context of Acts in Codex Bezae’
April 2007
Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on Textual Criticism, Birmingham University
‘The Theological Tendency of Codex Bezae in Acts – An Update’
September 2006
AsociaciónBíblica Española Congress, Salamanca, Spain (read in absentia)
‘Jewish Traditions Concerning the Torah and the Nations: Acts 13:44-46’
July 2006
SNTS Annual Meeting, Aberdeen
‘Who is “Simeon” in James’ Speech to the Jerusalem Meeting (Acts 15.14)?’
September 2005
British New Testament Conference
‘Narrative Patterns in Acts’
April 2005
Fourth Birmingham Colloquium on Textual Criticism, Birmingham University
‘Analysing the Narrative Structure of the Book of Acts: The Contribution of Variant Readings’
January 2005
AssociacióBíblica de Catalunya Annual Congress, Vilafranca del Pinedès, Spain
‘Ethical or Ritual? The Requirements of the Apostolic Decree’
September 2004
SNTS Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
‘A Presentation of The Message of Acts’ (with J. Rius-Camps)
August 2003
SBL International Meeting, Cambridge
‘The Apostles in the Bezan Text of Acts’
March 2002
Conference ‘The Old Testament in the New’, Hawarden, Wales
‘Paul’s “Turning to the Gentiles”: The Perspective of The Bezan Text’
September 2001
British New Testament Conference, Manchester
‘The Portrait of Paul in Acts’
July 2000
International Colloquium, ‘L’histoire du texte du Nouveau Testament avant 200’, Lille, France
‘Changes in Some Prepositions in Witnesses to the Early Text of Acts’
January 1998
AssociacíoBíblica de CatalunyaCongress, Solsona, Spain
‘La notion du “Tsedek” selon Henri Baruk, psychiâtre français’
July 1997
Study Day, Académie des Langues Anciennes de Saintes (CNRS), France (invited speaker)
Four public lectures, ‘Les Débuts de l’Eglise Chrétienne’
March 1997
First Birmingham Colloquium on Textual Criticism, Birmingham University
‘WhereisEmmaus?’
July 1996
Public lecture, Académie des Langues Anciennes de Saintes (CNRS), France
‘La tradition textuelle des Actes des Apôtres’
May 1996
New Testament Study Day, Leeds University (invited speaker)
‘Barnabas in Acts’
September 1995
Asociación Bíblica Española Congress: ‘La Bíblia i el Mediterrani’, Barcelona, Spain
‘La tradition targumique du Codex de Bèze’
June 1994
International Colloquium, ‘Le Codex de Bèze’, Lunel, France (invited speaker)
‘Une interprétation de Actes 12 selon le livre d’Ezekiel’
May 1993
New Testament Workshops, Faculté de Théologie, Montpellier, France (invited speaker)
‘La perspective théologique de Luc et les formes du nom de “Jérusalem” dans les Actes’
June 1988
New Testament Study Group, Tyndale House, Cambridge
‘The Bezan Text of Acts 3’
September 1985
Association Internationale Bible et Informatique, Louvain, Belgium
‘Les versions primitives du Nouveau Testament: l’état de la recherche dans les pays anglophones
In preparation
—La Structure de l’Évangile de Jean (editor and contributor; in collaboration with the Institut Catholique de Toulouse).
—Being Theophilus: Studies in the Jewish Context of the New Testament Writings Attributed to Luke (Gospel and Acts) (LNTS; London: T&T Clark).
2022
Luke in his Own Words: A Study of the Language of Luke–Acts in Greek (LNTS; London: T&T Clark).
2014
A Gospel Synopsis of the Greek Text of Matthew, Mark and Luke: A Comparison of Codex Bezae and Codex Vaticanus(ed. with J. Rius-Camps, in collaboration with E. Muñarch; NTTSD 45; Leiden: Brill).
2013
Luke’s Demonstration to Theophilus: The Gospel and Acts of the Apostles according to Codex Bezae(ed. with J. Rius-Camps; English expanded edn; London: Bloomsbury).
2009
The Message of the Bezan Text of Acts: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition: Vol. 4: Acts 18.24–28.31: Rome (with J. Rius-Camps; LNTS 415; T&T Clark).
2007
Ibid., Vol. 3: Acts 13.1–18.23: The Ends of the Earth (with J. Rius-Camps; LNTS 365; T&T Clark).
2006
Ibid.,Vol. 2: Acts 6.1–12.25: From Judaea to the Church in Antioch (with J. Rius-Camps; LNTS 302; T&T Clark).
2004
Ibid.,Vol. 1: Acts 1.1–5.42: Jerusalem (with J. Rius-Camps; JSNTSup. 257; T&T Clark).
2002
The Bezan Text of Acts: A Contribution of Discourse Analysis to Textual Criticism (JSNTSup. 236; Sheffield: SAP).
2022
‘Exodus in the Book of Acts: A Prophetic Reversal of Israel’s History’, in S. Docherty and B. Kowalski (eds.), Let My People Go: The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature (Themes in Biblical Narrative Series;Leiden: Brill).
2021
‘Discourse Analysis of the Book of Acts’, in T. Scacewater (ed.), Discourse Analysis of the New Testament Writings (Dallas: Fontes Press).
2019
‘The Function of the Article with Proper Names: The New Testament Book of Acts as a Case Study’, in D. King (ed.), The Article in Post-Classical Greek (Dallas: SIL International), pp. 153-185.
2018
‘L'analyse du discours au service de la critique textuelle’,in C-B. Amphoux – J. Lassael (eds), Actes du Colloque Philologie du Nouveau Testament 2014 (Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires PUP).
2015
‘The Interface between Rhetorical Analysis and Discourse Analysis’, in R. Meynet and J. Oniszczuk (eds), Studi del TerzoConvegno RBS (Rome: GBPress), pp. 325-346.
2014
‘Eclecticism and the Book of Acts’ in P. Doble and J. Kloha (eds), Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of J.K. Elliott (Leiden: Brill), pp. 71-92.
—‘The Parable of the Vineyard in Luke's Gospel (20.9-19): Text and Tradition’,in A. Puig i Tarrech (ed.), Relectures de l'Escriptura a la llum del ConciliVaticà II (1) "La vinya" (Scripta Biblica 14; Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Monserrat), pp. 171-192.
2013
‘Les diverses fórmules utilitzades per Lluc per parlar de l’Esperit Sant’, in A. Puig iTarrech (ed.), L’Esperit Sant en la Bíblia (Scripta Biblica 13; Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Monserrat), pp. 201-207.
2012
‘Luke-Acts: The Problem of Editing a Text with a Multiple Textual Tradition’, in C.-B. Amphoux and J.K. Elliott (eds), Textual Research on the Psalms and the Gospels (NTSup. 142; Leiden: Brill), pp. 147-165.
—‘Le Codex de Bèze: un texte pré-canonique du Nouveau Testament’, in A.-L. Zwilling (ed.), Lire et Interpréter (Geneva: Labor et Fides), pp. 95-108
—‘Paul and the Collection’, in A. Puig iTarrech (ed.), Pau, Fundador del Cristianisme? (Scripta Biblica 12; Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Monserrat), pp. 145-161.
2011
‘Tracing the Readings of Codex Bezae in the Papyri of Acts’ (with J. Rius-Camps), in C. Clivaz and J. Zumstein (eds), Reading New Testament Papyri in Context. Lire les papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte (Leuven: Peeters), pp. 307-338.
—‘The Use of the Article Before Names of Places: Patterns of Use in the Book of Acts’, in Discourse Studies and Biblical Interpretation: A Festschrift in Honor of Stephen H. Levinsohn(Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press), pp. 371-402.
2010
‘ Enslavement and Redemption: The Census of Augustus and the Birth of Jesus in Luke 2.1-7 Codex Bezae’, in Facultat de Teologia de Catalunya (ed.), A la recerca del sentit de la paraula (Revista Catalana de Teologia 35), pp. 127-141.
2008
‘The Distinction between ἄπαν and πᾶν in the Work of Luke’, in Centre for the Dialogue between Science and Religion (ed.), Biblical Studies (Craiova: Universitaria), pp. 147–58.
2006
‘Who is “Simeon” in James’ Speech to the Jerusalem Meeting (Acts 15.14)?’, EstudiosBiblicos 64, pp. 631–45.
—‘Luke’s Use of ὦςand ὡσεί: Comparison and Correspondence as a Means to Convey his Message’, in R. Pierri(ed.), Grammatica Intellectio Scripturae: Saggifilologici di Greco biblioc in onore di padre Lino Cignelli, OFM (Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Analecta 68; Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press), pp. 251–74.
—‘The Tracking of Participants with the Third Person Pronoun: A Study of the Text of Acts’, RevistaCatalana de Teologia 31, pp. 439–55.
2005
‘After the Death of Judas: A Reconsideration of the Status of the Twelve Apostles’(with J. Rius-Camps), RevistaCatalana de Teología 29, pp. 305–34.
2004
‘Variation in the Use of Prepositions between Codex Bezae and the Alexandrian Uncials’, in C.-B. Amphoux and J.K. Elliott (eds), The New Testament Text in Early Christianity (Lausanne: Editions du Zèbre), pp. 275–87.
2003
‘The Apostles in the Bezan Text of Acts’, in T. Nicklas and M. Tilly (eds), Apostelgeschichte als Kirchengeschichte(BZNW, 122; Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter), pp. 263–80.
—‘The Re-Enactment of the History of Israel: Exodus Traditions in the Bezan Text of Acts’, R. Pope (ed.), Remembering the Past and Shaping the Future (Leominster: Gracewing), pp. 81–96.
—‘Les Actes des Apôtres dans le Codex de Bèze: leurintérêt et leurvaleur’, Dossiers
d’ Archéologie279, pp. 44–55.
2002
‘Emmaous or Oulammaous? Luke’s Use of the Jewish Scriptures in the Text of Luke 24 in Codex Bezae’ (with J. RiusCamps), Revista Catalana de Teologia27, pp. 23–42.
1998
‘Barnabas in Acts: A Study of His Role in the Text of Codex Bezae’, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 72, pp. 23–66.
—‘Where is Emmaus?’, in D.J. Taylor (ed.), The Early Text of the Gospels and Acts (Birmingham: Birmingham University Press), pp. 229–44.
1996
‘The Seven Steps: A Prophetic Interpretation in the Bezan Text of Acts 12’, in D.C. Parker and C.-B. Amphoux (eds), Codex Bezae (Leiden: Brill), pp. 301–312.
—‘Word Order in Koine Greek’, Filología Neotestamentaria 9, pp. 139–80.
1995
‘Unintentional Sins in Peter’s Speech in Acts 3’, Revista Catalana de Teologia 2, pp. 269–76.
1991
‘Acts 8:37: A Textual and Exegetical Study’, The Bulletin of the Institute for Reformation Biblical Studies 2, pp. 8–13.
—‘The Use of the Definite Article before Names of People in the Greek Text of Acts with Particular Reference to Codex Bezae’ (with S.H. Levinsohn), FilologíaNeotestamentaria 5, pp. 15–44.
2014
Translation from Catalan: R. Lufrani and J. Cerverai Valls, ‘The Episode of the Bronze Serpent (Num 21:4-9): Exegesis, Topography and Archaeology’ in Liber Annus 65, pp. 23-48.
2011
Translation from Catalan: A. Puig iTarrech, Jesus of History (Baylor Press: New York)
2010
Translation from Catalan and French: A. Puig iTarrech, An Uncommon Journey (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck).
2007
Translation from Catalan: J. Rius-Camps, ‘The Pericope of the Adulteress Reconsidered: The Nomadic Misfortunes of a Bold Pericope’, New Testament Studies 53, pp. 379-405.
2002
Translation from Catalan: J. Rius-Camps, ‘The Spelling of Jerusalem in the Gospel of John’, New Testament Studies 48, pp. 84–94.
1996
Translation from French: F. Blanchetière, ‘Three Types of Christian Anti-Judaism’, in G.N. Stanton and G.G. Stroumsa (eds), Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge: CUP), pp. 185–210.
1992
Translation from French: C.-B. Amphoux and L. Vaganay, An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism (Cambridge: CUP).
1989
Translation intoFrench: J.K. Elliott, ‘L’importance de la critique textuelle pour le problème synoptique’, Revue Biblique 96, pp. 56–70.
