Eckhard J. Schnabel (born May 9, 1955 in Bad Cannstatt) is a German evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament.
He is the author of numerous scholarly books, Bible commentaries, specialist articles and lexical contributions.
From 1998 to 2012 he was a New Testament professor at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) near Chicago and since 2012 at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts (USA).
Since 1981 Schnabel has been teaching at the Kraków Bible Institute, Poland, and since 1983 at the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Leuven, Belgium.
[2] Schnabel was awarded the 2003 Johann Tobias Beck Prize for Early Christian Mission,[3] a 1,800-page book that, according to the convicting body, represents a significant contribution to theology from an evangelical perspective.