Nina S. Heereman, SSD

Bio

Dr. Heereman was born and raised in a devout Catholic family in Germany. Originally trained to become a lawyer, she experienced a deep encounter with the Lord which led her to discern a vocation as a lay woman celibate for the sake of the kingdom. She received two years of spiritual formation and attended the ICPE school of Evangelization in India, Banglore, which eventually led her to theological studies so as to consecrate her life to the study and teaching of the Word of God.  She received an STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University, an SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the SSD from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem on and the Université de Fribourg. During and after her doctoral studies she lectured at the Collège des Bernhardins, Paris, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome as a visiting professor. Explaining her discernment to join St. Patrick’s faculty, Dr. Heereman writes: “In particular, I desire to open up the treasures of the Scriptures to future priests so that their ministry might be rooted in the Word of God as the living source of their life and preaching.  I am deeply committed to the Church’s desire to make ‘the study of the sacred page the very soul of theology’ (DV 24).”  

Conference/Workshop Presentations

Selected Publications

1. “Behold King Solomon on the Day of His Wedding!”: A Symbolic Diachronic Reading of Song 3:6-11 and 4:12–5:1 (BETL 320, Leuven, Peeters) 2021. 
2. “Bei euch sei es nicht so!”, in “Was Er euch sagt, das tut!” Kritische Beleuchtung des Synodalen Weges. C. Binninger et. al (Hrsg.), Regensburg, Verlag Friedrich Pustet 2021.   
3. Recuperating the Song of Songs as Religious Poetry. Building a Bridge from Composition to Canon, in P. van Hecke (ed.), The Song of Songs in Its Context: Word for Love, Love for Words (BETL 310, Leuven, Peeters, 2020), 219-270. 
4.  „Moral ohne Jesus, Jesus ohne Moral? Jesus ist die Aufklärung über den Menschen“, in Die Tagespost (Forum: Die Zukunft der Moral – die Moral der Zukunft), 24. Dezember 2020.  
5. “Preface” to Archbishop Gänswein, Way of the Cross (Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, MH 2020); Italian: Gesù nel suo ultimo viaggio lungo le strade della Terra Santa, Prefazione per Georg Gänswein, Via Crucis (Milano, Edizione Ares 2021); German (original): „Vorwort” zu Georg Gänswein, Betrachtungen zum Kreuzweg (Kißlegg, fe-Medien 2020). English:   
6. “‘Who is the Church?’ Part I. The Roots of the Church in the Old Testament,” in: Pietre Vive 6/2018; Part II. The Roots of the Church in the New Testament,” in: Pietre Vive 7/2019. 
7.  «Where is Wisdom to be Found?» Rethinking the Song of Song’s Solomonic Setting, in ZAW 130 (2018) 418-435. 
8. ‘Behold King Solomon!’: Inner-Biblical Interpretation in Song 3:6-11, in A. Schellenberg – L. Schwienhorst-Schönberger (eds.), Interpreting the Song of Songs: Literal or Allegorical? (BTS, 26), Leuven, Peeters, 2016, 181-219.