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Silvia Castelli is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Religion and Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She specializes in New Testament studies and Early Judaism, with a focus on textual criticism and Jewish-Greek literature. Her affiliations include the research teams 'New Testament and Christian Origins' and 'Contextual Biblical Interpretation.' She holds a dual PhD in Jewish Studies (University of Turin) and a second PhD on NT textual criticism (VU Amsterdam, 2020).
Education includes MA and PhD studies in Classical Studies and Jewish Studies, with fellowships at the Leibniz Institute (Mainz), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Yale. She has taught at institutions like the University of Trento and Leiden University, coordinating Greek language courses at VU.
Research interests span NT textual criticism methodologies, Josephus' biblical interpretations, and intersections between biblical hermeneutics and spiritual care. Recent work explores 'patientia' (patience) in antiquity and collaborates on projects about imperial responses in Roman historiography.
Awards include the Aurelio Bernardi Prize (1997), Lady Davies Fellowship (2001), and the 2020 Brill publication of her second PhD. She supervises three PhD students and chairs the SBL unit on 'Biblical Studies and Spiritual Care.'
