The Team

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Professor Constantine Campbell

Professor of Biblical Studies and Research Director, Office of the Dean
PhD, Macquarie University Bachelor of Divinity (Honours 1), Moore Theological College AdvDipMus (Jazz), Australian National University

Constantine R. Campbell (PhD, Macquarie University, 2007), has been Professor of Biblical
Studies since 2022 and Research Director at the Sydney College of Divinity since 2023.
Formerly he was Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Illinois,
USA) and Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Greek at Moore Theological College
(Sydney, Australia).

His doctorate is in Ancient Greek language and linguistics as it applies to
the era of the New Testament. Professor Campbell is the author of 16 books, with focus on
Ancient Greek, New Testament interpretation, the apostle Paul, and the contemporary
church. His book Paul and Union with Christ was the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the
Year in Biblical Studies. His latest releases are Jesus v. Evangelicals (Zondervan Reflective,
2023) and The Perfect Storm (with Buist M. Fanning & Stanley E. Porter; Peter Lang, 2021).
Professor Campbell was co-chair of the Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics section of
the Society of Biblical Literature, and is an Associate Editor of the Zondervan Exegetical
Commentary series. He is an elected member of the Society of New Testament Studies.

Professor Campbell is also a highly regarded jazz saxophonist and is a visiting instructor at
the Australian National University School of Music. He is the presenter of two documentary
series on the apostles Paul and Peter.

Publications
Books
  • 2023

    The Letter to the Ephesians. Pillar New Testament Commentary Series.

    Grand Rapids: Eerdmans

  • 2023

    Jesus v. Evangelicals: A Biblical Critique of a Wayward Movement

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective

  • 2022

    Paul and the Hope of Glory: An Exegetical and Theological Study

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic

  • 2022

    Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture: A Literary, Canonical, and Theological Survey (with Jonathan T. Pennington).

    Grand Rapids: Baker Academic

  • 2021

    The Perfect Storm: Critical Discussion of the Semantics of the Greek Perfect Tense Under Aspect Theory (with Buist M. Fanning and Stanley E. Porter)

    New York: Peter Lang

  • 2017

    Reading Biblical Greek: A Grammar for Students (with Richard J. Gibson)

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2017

    1, 2 & 3 John: The Story of God Bible Commentary

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2015

    Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2013

    Colossians and Philemon: A Handbook on the Greek Test

    Waco: Baylor University Press

  • 2013

    Outreach and the Artist: Sharing the Gospel with the Arts

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2012

    Paul and Union with Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2010

    Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People.

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2008

    Verbal Aspect and Non-indicative Verbs: Further Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament. Studies in Biblical Greek 15.

    New York: Peter Lang

  • 2008

    Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek

    Grand Rapids: Zondervan

  • 2008

    Not Ashamed: 2 Timothy. Bible Alive.

    Sydney: Aquila

  • 2007

    Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament. Studies in Biblical Greek 13

    New York: Peter Lang