Rev. Kevin Zilverberg, S.S.D.

Rev. Kevin Zilverberg, S.S.D. (Cand.)

Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture and Director of the Institute for Catholic Theological Formation (2014)


Degree(s):

S.S.D., Pontifical Biblical Institute (summa cum laude), Italy, 2022
S.S.L., Pontifical Biblical Institute, Italy, 2014
S.T.B. & M.Div., – St. John Vianney Theological Seminary (summa cum laude), Colorado, 2007
B.A., in Philosophy & Catholic Studies – St. John Vianney College Seminary, Univ. of St. Thomas, 2003

Phone: (651) 962-5797 (Faculty Support)

Fax: (651) 962-5790

Email: kjzilverberg@stthomas.edu

Official Website

Mailing Address:

The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity
2260 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

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Published Works (since 2018):

Monographs

The Textual History of Old Latin Daniel from Tertullian to Lucifer. Textos y Estudios Cardenal Cisneros 85. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. 2021.

Edited Volumes

Giambrone, Anthony, and Kevin Zilverberg, eds. Divine Election in the Latin Bible: Philological and Theological Explorations. Études Bibliques. Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.

Genung, Matthew, and Kevin Zilverberg, eds. The Word of Truth, Sealed by the Spirit: Perspectives on the Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture. Catholic Theological Formation Series. St. Paul, MN: Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2022. (contributions refereed)

Zilverberg, Kevin, and Scott Carl, eds. Piercing the Clouds: Lectio Divina and Preparation for Ministry. Catholic Theological Formation Series. St. Paul, MN: Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2021. (contributions refereed)

Zilverberg, Kevin, and Scott Carl, eds. The Revelation of Your Words: The New Evangelization and the Role of the Seminary Professor of Sacred Scripture. Catholic Theological Formation Series. St. Paul, MN: Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2021.

Rodríguez Piedrabuena, Sandra, Gréta Kádas, Sara Macías Otero, and Kevin Zilverberg, eds. Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History: Kατὰ σχολήν. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. (contributions refereed)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters, Refereed

“The Greek Loan Word Presbyteri in Vetus Latina Susanna: Reception by Cyprian, Lucifer, and Jerome.” In Varietate delectamur: Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin (Selected Papers from the 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin, Ghent, 2022), edited by Giovanbattista Galdi, Simon Aerts, and Alessandro Papini. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming.

“The Question of the Necessity of Non-Christian Parents’ Consent for the Validity of Infant Baptism in Catholic Theology from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century.” In Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses (ETL) 97, no. 1 (2021): 61–84.

“Cultic Verbs in Vetus Latina Daniel and in Jerome’s Translations of the Greek Additions to Daniel.” In 13th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin Vulgaire – Latin Tardif XIII), edited by Béla Adamik, Andrea Barta, and Edit Krähling. Special issue, Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59, nos. 1–4 (2019): 445–52.

Book Chapters without Blind Review

Secundum propositum uocati (Rom 8:28): The Biblical Bases for Augustine’s Teaching on Divine Election.” In Divine Election in the Latin Bible: Philological and Theological Explorations, edited by Anthony Giambrone and Kevin Zilverberg. Études Bibliques. Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming.

“The Nova Vulgata.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible, edited by Hugh A. G. Houghton, 378–91. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

“Von der Vetus Latina zu den Übersetzungen von Hieronymus: Kontinuität und Wandel im Sprachlichen” [From the Vetus Latina to Jerome’s Translations: Linguistic Continuity and Change], translated by Roland Hoffmann. In Lingua Vulgata. Eine linguistische Einführung in das Studium der lateinischen Bibel, edited by Roland Hoffmann, 87–108. Studienbücher zur Lateinischen Linguistik 5. Hamburg: Buske, 2023.

Conference Proceedings

“Worship in Truth (John 4:23–24): Polyvalent Alētheia and Veritas in the Greek and Latin Church Fathers of Africa.” In Worship in Spirit and in Truth: Essays to Mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Publication of Benedict XVI / Joseph Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy (Proceedings of the Thirteenth Fota International Liturgical Conference, 2022), edited by Mariusz Biliniewicz, 163–84. Wells, Somerset, England: Smenos, 2023.

“Old Latin Daniel in Antiphons and the Benedicite of the Earliest Manuscripts of the Roman Mass and Office.” In Resourcing the Prayers of the Roman Liturgy: Patristic Sources (Proceedings of the Tenth Fota International Liturgical Conference, 2017), edited by Joseph Briody, 34–47. Wells, Somerset, England: Smenos, 2018.

Translations

(Latin; three prologues in) Prólogos de la Biblia Latina (Siglo XVI) [tentative title], edited by José Manuel Cañas Reíllo and Pablo Toribio Pérez. Forthcoming.

(German) Schenker, Adrian, OP. “Elisha’s Posthumous Miracle in Textual History (2 Kgs 13:20–21): What Does This Story Teach Us about the Textual History of the Books of Kings?” In New Avenues in Biblical Exegesis in Light of the Septuagint, edited by Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto and Daniela Scialabba, 59–69. The Septuagint in its Ancient Context 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2022.

(Italian) Grilli, Massimo. “Guidelines and Challenges for New Testament Biblical Theology.” Studia Biblica Slovaca 11, no. 1 (2019): 29–41.

Book Reviews

Ambrosini, Cecilia, Federico De Dominicis, and Maria Galli, eds., Osculetur me. Tre commentari anonimi al Cantico dei Cantici, Opere Perdute e Anonime 3. Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2022. Reviewed in Rivista Biblica: Trimestrale dell’Associazione Biblica Italiana 71 (2023): 264–7.

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Old Latin and Vulgate Versions of Deuteronomy.” In The Book of Deuteronomy: Composition, Contexts, Interpretation, and Reception, edited by Dominik Markl, Craig A. Evans, and Kyung S. Baek. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature. Leiden – Boston: Brill, in preparation [2025].

Other

Abstract in Old Testament Abstracts 46, no. 3 (2023): 949 (#2583): José Francisco García Juan. La traducción latina interlineal de los LXX en la Biblia políglota complutense: Libro de Job. Textos y Estudios Cardenal Cisneros 82. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2020.

“Introduction to the English Edition.” In Carlos Granados and Luis Sánchez-Navarro, In the School of the Word: Biblical Interpretation from the New to the Old Testament, translated by Kristin Towle, 1–6. Catholic Theological Formation Series. St. Paul, MN: Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2021.

Joseph, Just and Reverent.” Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN). July 29, 2021, p. 15.

“De vocatione mea ad sacerdotium.” In Vox Latina 55, no. 215 (2019): 128–33.

“Index Locorum.” In Visiones y Aspectos Puntuales de la Épica Grecorromana. Manuales y Anejos de “Emerita” 53, edited by Dulce Estefanía Álvarez, 277–93. Madrid: CSIC, 2018.

GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS

2023–2024  Profesor asociado (Sept. – Jan.), Facultad de Teología, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain.

2022  Professeur invité (fall semester), École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Israel.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2020  Bibeau Award for the best dissertation and defense, out of eight dissertations defended in 2019–2020, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich: Catholic Theology Faculty

2022  Postdoctoral fellowship (June–Sept.): linguistic phenomena in Latin biblical texts.

Spanish National Research Council, Madrid: Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and Near East

2021–2023  Team member (grupo de trabajo) of Biblia latina e historiografía eclesiástica: edición y estudio de textos [Latin Bible and Ecclesiastical Historiography: Editions and Study of Texts] (reference PID2020-114729GB-I00).

2018–2021  Team member (grupo de trabajo) of Edición y estudio de textos bíblicos y parabíblicos [Publication and study of biblical and parabiblical texts] (reference FFI2017-86726-P).

2016–2018  Team member (grupo de trabajo) of Recepción, transmisión y tradición de la Biblia en griego y latín: Edición y estudio de textos [Reception, transmission, and tradition of the Bible in Greek and Latin: Publication and study of texts] (reference FFI2014-51910-P).

Invited Talks (since 2018)

2023  “Filius hominis ueniens uenit: Presentación del libro The Textual History of Old Latin Daniel from Tertullian to Lucifer” (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2021) by Kevin Zilverberg, at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Sept. 8, 2023.

2023  Presentation on The Bible and the Priesthood: Priestly Participation in the One Sacrifice for Sins (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2022) by Anthony Giambrone, at St. Albert the Great Priory, Minneapolis, MN, May 8, 2023.

2022  “Praedestinatus est Filius Dei (Rom 1:4): The Biblical Bases for Augustine’s Teaching on Divine Election,” journée d’étude on divine election in the Latin Bible, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Israel, Dec. 15, 2022.

2022  “Worship in Truth (John 4:23–24): Polyvalent Veritas in the Latin Fathers,” Thirteenth Fota International Liturgical Conference, County Cork, Ireland, July 3, 2022.

2022  “Biblical Exegesis Informing Theology and Prayer” (with a focus on magisterial documents and Rom 7:7–25), webinar for Saint John’s Seminary, Boston, May 19, 2022.

2022  “The Literal Sense of Sacred Scripture” and “The Sensus Plenior,” two lectures given at the Thirty-Eighth Easter Seminar for Priests and Seminarians, sponsored by Midwest Theological Forum at Shellbourne Conference Center, Valparaiso, IN, Apr. 18, 2022.

2021  “De arca foederis et Beata Virgine Maria,” [“The Ark of the Covenant and the Blessed Virgin Mary,”] two lectures given while on staff for the annual Latin immersion week of the Veterum Sapientia Institute, St. Joseph College Seminary, Mount Holly, NC, July 25 – July 31, 2021.

2021  “Joseph, Just and Reverent Man,” for the Cuppa Joe video series of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Joseph’s Parish, New Hope, MN, June 18, 2021.

2021  Lectures on the nature of sacred Scripture and biblical hermeneutics to the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, in Alma, MI, Mar. 30 and Apr. 3, 2021.

2021  Lecture introducing the study of the Old Latin Bible, in Spanish, for students of Ancient Greek, Fossanova Abbey, Priverno, Lazio, Italy, Jan. 21, 2021.

2020  “Ioannes 6: Philologica et exegetica,” [“John 6: Philological and exegetical observations,”] for the annual Latin immersion week of the Veterum Sapientia Institute, St. Joseph College Seminary, Mount Holly, NC, July 31, 2020.

2019  “De Hieronymi interpretationibus biblicis iuxta suam chronologiam compositionis,” [“Jerome’s biblical translations according to their chronology of composition,”] given while on staff for the annual Latin immersion week of the Institutum Veterum Sapientia, Belmont Abbey College, NC, July 28 – Aug. 3, 2019.

CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP AND PAPERS, AND OTHER LECTURES (since 2018)

2022  Codirection of a journée d’étude on divine election in the Latin Bible, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, Israel, Dec. 15, 2022.

2022  “The Greek Loan Word Presbyteri in Vetus Latina Susanna: Patristic Reception as Elders and Priests,” The 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin Vulgaire – Latin Tardif XIV), Ghent University, Belgium, Sept. 6, 2022.

2022  Supervision and co-direction, with Dr. John Martens, of the Quinn Biblical Conference, “The Transcendent Mystery of God’s Word: A Critical Synthesis of Antioch and Alexandria,” Alverna Conference Center, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN, June 5–8, 2022.

2022  “Daniel Reinterprets Jeremiah’s ‘Seventy Years’: A Biblical Interpretive Trajectory up to the Present Day,” Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library Lecture, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, Apr. 25, 2022.

2021  “The Textual History of Vetus Latina Daniel from Tertullian to Lucifer,” a research report for the annual meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association, by Zoom, Aug. 1, 2021.

2021  Planning, direction, and hosting of the Quinn Biblical Conference on the inspiration and truth of sacred Scripture, King’s House Retreat Center, Buffalo, MN, June 27–30, 2021.

2020  English translation of Natalio Fernández Marcos, “Stephen Pisano: El Rostro Amable de la Biblia Hebraica Quinta,” [“Stephen Pisano: The Friendly Face of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta,”] The Stephen Pisano Memorial Lecture, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, Oct. 28, 2020 (video recording of Spanish lecture with English subtitles).

2018  “Cultic Vocabulary in Vetus Latina Daniel,” The 13th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin Vulgaire – Latin Tardif XIII), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 6, 2018.

2018  “The Interlinear Latin Translation of Greek Daniel in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible,” Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, University of Castile-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain, July 30, 2018.

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