Rate My Professor Reinhart Ceulemans

Ceulemans’s research specializations encompass catenae and biblical exegesis in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Byzantine anthological literature, the transmission of the Greek Bible, and textual criticism, alongside interests in Greek epistolography and Dutch translations of Greek literature. He coordinates research line 1 (Greek Studies) at LECTIO – KU Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Key publications include co-editing Research on Psalter Catenae: Current Trends and Future Perspectives (2021, De Gruyter) with Cordula Bandt and Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers (2020, Uppsala Universitet) with Barbara Crostini. Recent contributions feature “The Structure of the Popular Catena on Genesis” (2025) in Ordres et désordres dans les chaînes exégétiques grecques, “Procopius in the Catena Lipsiensis on I–IV Kingdoms, and the Margins of Manuscript Munich, BSB, gr. 358” (2024), and “Greek Exegesis of the Song of Songs Copied by Patrick Young” (2025). He supervises doctoral projects on Byzantine hagiography, Slavonic translations of Byzantine texts, and Jerome’s biblical translations. Ceulemans contributes to editorial boards such as Corpus Christianorum: Series Graeca, steering committees of societies in Byzantine Studies, Patristics, and Septuagint Studies, serves as SBL Program Chair for the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, board member of the Leitungskommission for the Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters, and Belgian correspondent for the Byzantinische Zeitschrift bibliography.