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Assist. Prof. SSD. Ing. Martina Korytiaková, PhD.

Scientific and pedagogical profile

Academic activities

 

Qualifications:

  • 2005 Ing. in Economics and Management at University of Agriculture in Nitra
  • 20011 Mgr. in Catholic Theology at FRCThCM CU Bratislava: she obtain the Dean's Award for the best Master's Thesis
  • 2012-2013 semester scholarship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2015 SSL. Licentiate in Sacrerd Scriptures at Pontificio Istituto Biblico Roma
  • 2022 SSD. Doctorate in Sacred Scriptures at Pontificio Istituto Biblico Roma: she obtain Marc and Rachelle Bibeau's Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in the academic year of 2021 and 2022

Membership of professional associations and boards:

  • 2012-2022, an external correspondent of the Slovak section of Vatican Radio
  • since 2012, an executive director of journal Studia Biblica Slovaca
  • since 2019, a member of the Society of Biblical Literature
  • since 2025 the full member of International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (ISDCL)
  • since 2025 a Board Member of the Catholic Bible Work

Pedagogical activities

Education and teaching:

  • 2022-2023 assistent of the Dean of Pontifical biblical Institute in Rome
  • 2022-2025 scientific researcher in the Department of Biblical Studies at FRCThCM CU in post-doctoral position
  • since 2025 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biblical Studies at FRCThCM CU, she leads the courses:
    • Old Testament 1 and 4
    • Biblical archeology
  • Space for consultations durning the lectures time in the academic year:

Scientific activities

Research areas, she is currently involved in:

  • the person of Judith and the book of Judith
  • methodology and practical use of narrative analysis in biblical texts
  • the Septuagint
  • narative analysis of the space in biblical literature

Publications: 

Overview of the most important publications with free access to selected texts

Monographs and chapters in monographs:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: Od nesympatického syna Ammona k sympatickému synovi Izraela. O úlohe emócií postáv a čitateľovej empatii a sympatizovaní s postavami v Achiórovej epizóde. In: Štrba, Blažej, ed.: Emócie v Biblii. Výskum fenoménu emócií v biblickej tradícii. (= Studia Biblica Slovaca Supplementum 3) RKCMBF UK 2018, s. 163-182. ISBN: 978-80-88696-75-9.

Scientific studies and conference contributions:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: Vôňa v stretnutí milého s nevestou. K literárnej jednote Pies 4,8–5,1. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca. Roč. 3, čís. 2 (2011), s. 148-172. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Starozákonná Judita a jej postoj k modlitbe. In: Štrba, Blažej, ed.: Osobnosti našej viery (=Studia Xaveriana 4) Badín: KSFX 2016, s. 25-37. ISBN 978-80-88937-72-2.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Dobrý či zlý Abram? Kritické a exegetické pozorovania k interpretáciám Gn 13. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca. Roč. 8, čís. 1 (2016), s. 1-31. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: On the Meaning of of εἰς παρεμβολὰς αὐτοῦ in Jdt 16:2b. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca, vol. 9, N. 2 (2017), s. 153-174. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Semi-Figurative Meaning of σκάνδαλα in Jdt 5:1. An Interpretation from the Perspective of an Ancient Warfare Defence. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca. Vol. 13, N. 2 (2021), s. 215-235. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Judith's Two Blows in Jdt. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca. Vol. 15, N. 1 (2023), s. 37-50. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Two Tents: The Interpretation of Judith's and Holofernes' Spaces and Their Functions in the Book of Judith. In: Studia Biblica Slovaca. Vol. 15, N. 1 (2023), s. 151-186. ISSN: 1338-0141.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Biblical Literary Tradition behind “Nabouchodonosor who Ruled over the Assyrians” in Jdt 1:1, JSCS 56 (2023) 85-98.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Knowing One’s Place: Loyal Servitude as a Key Aspect of a Good Ruler according to the Book of Judith, Orientalia 93.1 (2024) 229-250.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: To Meet with or to Come against? On the Meaning(s) of the Preposition πρός in Jdt 1:6a. In: Helena Panczová (ed.): The Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Bratislava, 22–23 April 2022, SEPT 4, Brepols: Turnhout, 2024, 211-224. ISBN 978-2-503-61017-7.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Knowing One’s Place: Loyal Servitude as a Key Aspect of a Good Ruler according to the Book of Judith, Orientalia 93.1 (2024) 229-250.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Τὸ κωνώπιον in the Book of Judith as a Motif in Narrative Space, Biblica 105.1 (2024) 37-58.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Book of Judith in Recent Research: The Twenty-First-Century Studies Survey, Rivista biblica italiana 72.4 (2024) 531-599.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Who Ought to Be Sentenced to Death and Why? Death Penalty, Its Reasons and Legal Justification in Jdt, Journal for the Study of Judaism 57/1 (2025) 34-62.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Bethelite Hiel and His Two Sons in 1 Kgs 16:34: The Connection between Anthroponyms and Toponyms Considering the Concept of Deuteronomistic Geography in 1–2 Kings. Studia Biblica Slovaca 17/2 (2025) 286-306.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Reasons for Offensive Wars in the Book of Judith in the Polemological Framework of Biblical Literary Tradition and Historical Context. In: Jozef Jančovič (ed.): Od príčin k dôsledkom: vojna a mier v optike teologických, cirkevno-historických a právnych vied, Prešov: Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, 2025, 72-94. ISBN 978-80-555-3663-7. e-ISBN 978-80-555-3664-4.

Schoolbooks and academic textbooks:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: The Odd Bejewelled κωνώπιον. Searching for the Narrative Function and Significance of Jdt 10:21b within Jdt 10–16 [dissertation thesis for SSLic.]. Roma: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2015.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Space in the Book of Judith. Narrative Analysis and Interpretation of Space. [defenced thesis for SSD.] Roma: Pontificio Institute Biblico 2022. (Knižná verzia vyjde vo vydavateľstve: Brepols v roku 2024)

Specialised and popularisation papers:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: Ty si sláva nášho národa! In: Estote benedicti. Čís. 23 (2018), s. 14.

Reviews, abstracts and editorial works:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: Space in the Book of Judith. Narrative Analysis and Interpretation of Space (Dissertation abstract). In: Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Vol. 55 (2022), p. 178.

Upcoming unpublished works:

  • Korytiaková, Martina: Deuteronomistic Concept of Geography in 1–2 Kings and Its ANE Context. Výročná konferencia Európskej asociácie biblických štúdií. Syrakúzy: Vysoká škola náboženských štúdií sv. Metoda v Syrakúzach, 10.-13. júla 2023.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Deuteronomistic Concept of Geography in 1–2 Kings and Its ANE Context. Výročná konferencia Európskej asociácie biblických štúdií. Syrakúzy: Vysoká škola náboženských štúdií sv. Metoda v Syrakúzach, 10.-13. júla 2023.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: “The King Is (Not) Dead, Long Live the King!”: The Preposition תַּחַת and the Royal Identity in 1 Kgs 1 from the Spatial Perspective, SBL EABS, 23–27 June 2025, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: τὸ πότος in Jdt 6:21, EuARe, 8–12 July 2025, Vienna, Austria.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Was Nabouchodonosor alone or only a (hu)man? ὡς ἀνὴρ εἷς in Jdt 1:11 as the Expression of Quality, IOSOT, 11–15 August 2025, Berlin, Germany.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Kapitulovať či nekapitulovať, to je otázka. Defenzívna vojna a jej legitímnosť v Knihe Judita. Medzinárodná vedecká konferencia Legitimizácia a deeskalácia vojen a ozbrojených konfliktov z teologickej, cirkevno-historickej a právnej perspektívy, 12. – 13. 11. 2025, Nitra, Kňazský seminár sv. Gorazda.
  • Korytiaková, Martina: Deuteronomistic Concept of Geography in 1–2 Kings and Its ANE Context. Výročná konferencia Európskej asociácie biblických štúdií. Syrakúzy: Vysoká škola náboženských štúdií sv. Metoda v Syrakúzach, 10.-13. júla 2023.