Dr. Ekaterini Tsalampouni

Ekaterini Tsalampouni is a Professor of the New Testament at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture of the Faculty of Theology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focuses on New Testament exegesis and theology and the Graeco-Roman context of the New Testament as well as on ecological hermeneutics. She studied at the Department of Theology of the Faculty of Theology in Thessaloniki and continued her postgraduate studies in Heidelberg. In 1999 she defended her doctoral thesis titled “Macedonia in New Testament times”. She has worked as a religion teacher in Secondary Education and as an appointed lecturer at the Department of Orthodox Theology of the University of Munich. She is a member of several academic societies: Society of Biblical Literature, European Association of Biblical Theology, Colloquium Paulinum, etc. She is on the board of the Hellenic Bible Society and the Volos Academy of Theological Studies. Some of her publications are Macedonia in New Testament Times (2002), Ecology and the New Testament: Method and Examples (2013), “Dealing with Eco-Justice from the Perspective of the Orthodox Tradition: Challenges and Dilemmas” (2016), “Balancing between Domestication and Foreignization: The Case of the Bible Translations into Modern Greek,” (2021), “Biblical Tradition and Same-Sex Relations: A Difficult Hermeneutical Path,” (2022), “Pandemics and Apocalyptic Texts: A Critical Exegetical Approach” (2022), etc.