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About Jonathon Lookadoo
Jonathon Lookadoo is Associate Professor at the Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary in Seoul, South Korea. While his interests range widely over the world of early Christianity, he is the author of books on the Epistle of Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, and the Shepherd of Hermas, including The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch (Cascade, 2023).
Jonathon Lookadoo is Associate Professor at the Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary in Seoul, South Korea. While his interests range widely over the world of early Christianity, he is the author of books on the Epistle of Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, and the Shepherd of Hermas, including The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch (Cascade, 2023).
NBN Episodes hosted by Jonathon:
December 24, 2025
Citifying Jesus
Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious stu…
November 25, 2025
Explorations in the Second Christian Century
As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Ma…
September 13, 2025
Paul and Judaism at the End of History
The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers hav…
September 12, 2025
Letters and Letter Writing
New Testament letters are compared with private, business, and administrative letters of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyzed against this background. M…
September 1, 2025
Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts
In Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts: Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence (Bloomsbury, 2023) H…
April 17, 2025
Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus
Why does the Gospel of Mark make specific and repeated reference to the compassion of Jesus in the miracle stories? Compassion and the Characterizatio…
March 27, 2025
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians
The First Letter to the Corinthians begins with an admonishment of the church over their internal division and reliance on human wisdom. What exactly …
February 23, 2025
Paul’s New Creation
In Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community (Lexington Book, 2023), Sejong Chun presents inter(con)textual readings of Paul’s new cre…
January 25, 2025
Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek
Verbal aspect in the Greek language has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. The majority of scholars now believe that an underst…
December 25, 2024
Christ's Torah
Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century (Routledge, 2023) explores the creation of the collection now known as the New T…
September 6, 2024
Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John
Recent scholarship focused on the role of embodiment within cognition and communication reminds us that part of how we “know” is through our physical …
August 25, 2024
Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity
Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Pass…
August 18, 2024
The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
In The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World (T&T Clark, 2023), Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in…
August 13, 2024
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers th…
June 29, 2024
A Jewish Apocalyptic Framework of Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
In contrast to scholarly belief that the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews envisions the transcendent, heavenly world as the eschatological inherit…
June 16, 2024
The Shepherd of Hermas As Scriptura Non Grata
Composed within the first Christian century by a Roman named Hermas, the Shepherd remains a mysterious and underestimated book to scholars and laypeop…
May 17, 2024
The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible
This is the first Syriac reader for the New Testament. It guides the reader through the Syriac New Testament Peshitta, glossing the uncommon words and…
April 30, 2024
Resetting the Origins of Christianity
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of …