Chair, Religious Studies
Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies
Burman University
Jonathan A. Campbell (Ph.D. Dallas Theological Seminary) served as a pastor and missionary before joining the faculty at Burman University. He enjoys studying and teaching the Bible. His research interests include ancient Greek manuscripts, New Testament ethics, and Greek pedagogy. In his spare time Jonathan and his wife enjoy playing board games and going on hikes.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Zurich
Associate Professor of New Testament
Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences
Bohdan Kuryliak, (Ph.D., University of Zurich), is a Ukrainian Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar specializing in Revelation, Johannine literature, eschatology, hermeneutics, reception history, and early Christianity. He is currently conducting a postdoctoral project at the University of Zurich on the annihilation of sinners in the Gospel of John. He holds graduate degrees from Andrews University and the National University of Ostroh Academy and completed his Ph.D. magna cum laude in 2025 with a dissertation on interpretive approaches to Revelation and their reception in antiquity.
Since 2016, he has taught New Testament and served in academic and administrative roles at the Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences, becoming Associate Professor in 2025. He has also conducted research at the Universities of Oxford and Aarhus, published more than ten peer-reviewed articles with leading academic presses, and presented at numerous international conferences. A member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Evangelical Theological Society, he also served as a pastor in Ukraine for five years and is proficient in Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Biblical Greek.
Research Associate
University of Zurich
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences
Ihor Kuryliak, (Ph.D., University of Zurich), is is a Ukrainian Protestant theologian and Hebrew Bible scholar specializing in Daniel, the Latter Prophets, eschatology, hermeneutics, reception history, and early Christianity. He is currently Research Associate at the University of Zurich and Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences. He holds graduate degrees from Andrews University and the National University of Ostroh Academy and completed his Ph.D. in 2025 at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Konrad Schmid and Tobias Jammerthal. His dissertation examines the temporal dimensions of Daniel, its reception in ancient Christianity, and its influence on modern interpretation.
Ihor has taught Old Testament since 2016 at institutions in Ukraine and Central Asia and has conducted research at Aarhus University. A member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the European Association of Biblical Studies, he has published more than ten peer-reviewed articles with leading academic presses, and presented at numerous international conferences. He also served as a pastor in Ukraine for five years and is proficient in Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Biblical Hebrew.