Ferdinand I. Okorie(ED.), Elizabeth W. Mburu(ED.) & Abeneazer G. Urga(ED.)

Ferdinand I. Okorie earned a PhD in New Testament and early Christianity from Loyola University, Chicago. He is the vice president and academic dean at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and also an associate professor of New Testament studies. He is the editor in chief of U.S. Catholic magazine. He is the author of Favor and Gratitude: Reading Galatians in Its Greco-Roman Context (Lexington Books; Fortress Academic, 2020) and coeditor of Bible, Interpretation and Context: Reading Meaning from an African Perspective (Lexington Books; Fortress Academic, 2023).

Elizabeth W. Mburu is the regional coordinator of Langham Literature in Anglophone Africa and an associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Africa International University, Kenya. She pursued her doctoral studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina. She is actively involved in research and publishing in the areas of New Testament, intercultural hermeneutics, contextual theology, and worldview studies. She is the author of Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism (T&T Clark, 2010) and African Hermeneutics (HippoBooks, 2019), and coeditor of Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives (T&T Clark, 2024) and Prophet, Priest, and King: Christology in Global Perspective (Zondervan Academic, 2025).

Abeneazer G. Urga (PhD, Columbia International University) has served as the department head for the MA in biblical studies, lectures in biblical studies at the Evangelical Theological College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and is an adjunct professor at Columbia International University and Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology. He is a member of Equip International and SIL Ethiopia/International, and an associate member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He is the author of Intercession of Jesus in Hebrews (Mohr Siebeck, 2023) and coeditor of Reading Hebrews Missiologically (William Carey, 2023), Reading 1 Peter Missiologically (William Carey, 2024), Reading Hebrews and 1 Peter from Majority World Perspectives (T&T Clark, 2024), and Reading James Missiologically (William Carey Publishing, 2025).