Jan Lambrecht

Jan Lambrecht (23 April 1926 – 4 March 2023) was 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 a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. As a theologian, biblical scholar, and prolific author, he contributed numerous studies on almost all the books of the New Testament, but focused especially on the Gospels and the Pauline letters. His publications included books and articles written in English, Dutch, and French.

Early life and education Lambrecht was born in Wielsbeke on 23 April 1926. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1945. He received a licentiate in Philosophy in 1952 from Nijmegen, and in 1960, in Theology (STL) from the Jesuit Faculty in Leuven. He also held 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.

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).

Selected works

- second edition in 2006 with added bibliography.