Bénédicte Lemmelijn obtained a Licence in Religious Studies (1991, and STB) from KU Leuven (Belgium), as well as a Licence in Theology (1993, STL).
In 1997, she obtained her PhD (PhD and STD) at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven. Since 1993, she has been attached to the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven. In 2003, she was appointed professor of Old Testament there.
She is a member of the Biblical Studies research unit. She was appointed a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission in December 2020 for a five-year term (2021-2026). She was also vice dean of internationalisation at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (2014-2019) and has been dean since 1 August 2022.
Besides several monographs, she has published scholarly contributions on Old Testament redaction and text criticism in internationally reviewed professional literature.
She is in charge of the Leuven Centre for Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism, where she leads several (funded) research projects on the characterisation of the translation technique of the Septuagint, the editing criticism of the Pentateuch, as well as on broader biblical-theological themes.
Since 2008, she has also been appointed Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (South Africa).
