Mr Mark Matic
Lecturer in Classical Languages
BInSt (Wollongong), MA, BA, DipLang, MRes (Macquarie)
Mark Matic is a linguist and historian. He is passionate about ancient languages and the stories they preserve. His research focuses on the language of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible), the Book of Revelation, and non-literary texts of the Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods (inscriptions, papyri, graffiti, etc.). He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the language of 2 Esdras (Greek Ezra-Nehemiah) at Macquarie University. He was awarded the Macquarie University Medal and other prizes for his master’s thesis on the same theme and was the 2024–25 recipient of the Macquarie Gale Graeco-Roman Travelling Scholarship. Mark has presented his research at academic events at the University of Sydney, the University of Cambridge, Ghent University, the University of Zagreb, and Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski. Mark has been teaching the Ancient Greek and Latin languages at Campion since 2021. He also has extensive knowledge of Croatian, Spanish and Ancient Hebrew.
Publications & Select Conference Papers
- “The Parenthetic Nominatives of the LXX: Standard Greek or Artefacts of Interference?” forthcoming in A. Keenan and R.S. Walker (eds.), Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint. SSHG1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026).
- “Register and Regiolect: The Relative ὁ of Revelation with Extrabiblical Comparanda,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (Boston, 22–25 Nov 2025).
- “Prepositional ἐχόμενα in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint: Origins, Register and Implications for Textual History,” The Septuagint within the History of Greek International Conference (Sydney, 27–29 Aug 2025).
- “The Distribution of γαῖα in the Manuscripts of the Septuagint: Archaisms or Signs of Sound Change?” European Association of Biblical Studies Annual Conference (Sofia, 15–17 July 2024).
- “No Little Excellence: Glimpses of Community and Network Formation in the Earliest Dalmatian Inscriptions,” Heritage and New Horizons: Croatia and Croatians in a Global Context (Sydney, 8–11 Feb 2024).