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“I love the academic life and strongly
believe in its contribution to the welfare of our faith and
our world. I believe that church leaders who have learned
the discipline of study and developed the creativity that
can be nurtured as well as experienced in the academic quest
are more adequately prepared to lead us into an uncertain
future.”
Education:
Ph.D.,
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1985
M.Div., Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana, 1975
B.A., University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1968
Areas of Expertise:
Rev. Dr. Kampen is an eminent scholar of
the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, specializing in the
Synoptic Gospels, with emphasis on Matthew, as well as Jewish
history and literature of the Greco-Roman era. He is published
widely on subjects as diverse as the Gospel of Matthew, Jewish
history, anti-Semitism and African-American use of the Bible.
Recently Published Works:
“The Books of the Maccabees and
Sectarianism in Second Temple Judaism,” in The Books of the
Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology, Papers of the Second
International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa,
Hungary, 9-11 June, 2006 (ed. Géza Xeravits and Józseph
Zsengellér; Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007), 11-30.
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