e-mail: krzysztof.napora@kul.pl

 

Born in 1974 in Puławy, Poland. He graduated from the K.E.N high school in 1993. He took his firs religious vows in 1994 in the novitiate of the Congregations of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Stopnica. He continued his religious and intellectual formation in the Seminary of the Congregation in Stadniki, district of Kraków (1994-2000). In 2000 he was granted the degree of Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków, having written the thesis on the spousal imagery used by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible to express relationship between God and Israel. In the same year he was ordained priest and he was working two years as parish priest in Lublin.

 

In 2002 he began studies at Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. From October 2003 through February 2004 he continued his studies of Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Archaeology within the compass of the program “The Bible and Its World” at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2006 he successfully finished his studies in Rome, having written the thesis “Uomo non e che una bestia (Ecc 3,18)” under the direction of prof. Luca Mazzinghi.

 

From 2007 through 2010 he e continued his biblical studies at the Dominican École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem (EBAF). In 2011 he presented his doctoral thesis: “The Concept of Separation in the Flood Narrative (Gen. 6-9)” written under the direction of prof. Krzysztof Sonek OP and defended his doctoral thesis in biblical sciences (S.S.D.). In 2010 he became a lecturer in the Theological Seminary of the Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Stadniki. Ha was also invited lecturer at the College of Philosophy and Theology of the Polish Dominican Province in Kraków. In the fall of 2012 he began teaching at the Catholic University of Lublin in the Institute of Biblical Studies.

He is a member of Society of Biblical Literature, Polish Bible Society and Polish Theological Society.