Janette H. Ok

Janette H. Ok, PhD, is associate professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her research interests include 1 Peter, the Letters of John, and the formation of early Christian identity, with an emphasis on Asian American, intersectional, feminist, and social-scientific approaches to biblical interpretation. She is an ordained pastor and preacher with over 25 years of ministry experience.

Ok has contributed to Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity: Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts (Lexington, 2020); T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics (T&T Clark, 2019); and Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans (Cascade, 2018). Her book, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2021), examines why and how the author of 1 Peter presents Christian identity as an ethnic identity. She has contributed to and is co-editor of The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Bible Commentary (IVP Academic, 2024).