Teaching Fellow
Philip Church teaches Biblical Greek.
He is a Senior Research Fellow with Laidlaw College, having taught Greek and Hebrew exegesis for around fifteen years.
In 2017, his University of Otago PhD thesis was published by Brill in the Novum Testamentum Supplement series as Hebrews and the Temple: Attitudes to the Temple in Second Temple Judaism and in Hebrews.
In 2023, Philip published a commentary working with the Greek text of Hebrews, intended as an undergraduate textbook: Never Give Up! The Message of Hebrews (Wipf & Stock).
He has also published over ten articles and book chapters on various aspects of the text of Hebrews. His research interests include the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Zionism.
He lives in Auckland.