Jan Lambrecht (born in

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, 1926) is a Belgian Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus, Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Biblical Greek at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and former member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. As a theologian, biblical scholar, and prolific author, he has contributed numerous studies on almost all the books of the New Testament, but focusing especially on the Gospels and the Pauline letters. His publications include books and articles written in English, Dutch, and French.

Education

Lambrecht joined the Society of Jesus in 1945. He received a licentiate in Philosophy in 1952 from

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, and in 1960, in Theology (STL) from the Jesuit Faculty in

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. He also holds a licentiate in Eastern History and Languages from the Catholic University of Leuven (1959). In 1965, he was awarded a doctorate in Sacred Scripture (DSS) at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

Academic career

Following his return from Rome in 1965, Jan Lambrecht first taught the New Testament at the Jesuit Faculty in

. But in 1968, when the Flemish Faculty of Theology (Faculteit Godgeleerdheid) was created after the

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had split into the Dutch speaking

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and the French speaking

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, he joined the newly formed Flemish Faculty. He remained there as Professor of New Testament and Biblical Greek until his retirement in 1990. Between 1985 and 1990, he served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology. After his retirement from Leuven, he was a visiting professor at the Biblical Institute in Rome (1995-2000), at the major seminary of Pretoria (2001-2003), at the Loyola University in New Orleans (2007-2009), and at Le Moyne College in Syracuse (2009-2010). He was also a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission for two terms (1985–95), and was part of the group which prepared the commission's influential document on
The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church
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Selected works

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References

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