Janette Ok - On Reading the New Testament in Color

About this episode

Dr. Janette Ok discusses the importance of bringing our full ethnic and cultural selves to the reading of the Bible.

What are we missing when we fail to (or are afraid to?) bring our full ethnic, cultural selves in reading the Bible? A lot, actually, because God meets us in the concreteness of a person whose meaning is fully formed in a particular time and culture. Dr. Janette Ok is a professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary, a preacher, and the co-author of New Testament in Color (IVP). Vania Gomez and Jin Cho have an encouraging and important conversation with Janette, on having early gender an...

People in this episode

Host: Vania Gomez

Guest: Dr Janette Ok

Topics covered

• New Testament
• ethnic identity
• cultural context
• Bible reading

Keywords

• New Testament in Color
• Fuller Seminary
• gender

Mentioned in this episode

Products: New Testament in Color

Books & works: Reading the New Testament in Color, Bible, New Testament in Color

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