Philip Comfort


Philip Wesley Comfort is a professor, writer, editor and expert on the Bible who specializes in textual criticism of the New Testament. He served as Professor of Greek and New Testament at Trinity Episcopal Seminary, visiting professor at Wheaton College, and senior Bible reference editor at Tyndale House Publishers.

Education

Comfort studied English, Greek and New Testament literature at Ohio State University and the University of South Africa. He completed his doctorate under the guidance of a prominent textual critic, Jacobus H. Petzer, at the University of South Africa.

Career

Comfort teaches classes at a number of colleges, including Wheaton College, Trinity Episcopal Seminary, Columbia International University, and Coastal Carolina University. He is currently a senior editor of Bible reference at Tyndale and serves as editor of the New Testament for the New Living Translation. He has contributed to various publications and Tyndale collections, both as a writer and editor. Among his works are The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament, The Origin of the Bible, The Tyndale Bible Dictionary, Essential Guide to Bible Versions, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, and Who's Who in Christian History.

Personal life

Comfort lives in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, United States, with his wife, Georgia. He has three sons, Jeremy, John, and Peter.

Works

Comfort has written a number of journal articles. In addition, he has written books:
He has also edited a number of books, including: