John Kampen
Professor in the Dunn Chair in Biblical Interpretation
740-362-3364
jkampen@mtso.edu
Gault Hall 236
Curriculum vitae
Education
Ph.D., Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, 1985
M.Div., Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind., 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.
Selected published works
Wisdom Literature. Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.
“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.
Syllabi
HB 240: Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
HB/NT 241: The Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish History and Christian Origins
HB/NT/SR 245: Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
HB 339: Daniel and Other Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Video
“Modern Research on Ancient Texts: The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” a faculty lecture by John Kampen:
