Yung Suk Kim is a Full Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Virginia Union University. Kim received a Ph.D. in New Testament studies from Vanderbilt University and an M.Div from McCormick Theological Seminary. He has written about twenty books in the area of biblical interpretation and New Testament studies, including Monotheism, Biblical Traditions, and Race Relations (Cambridge 2022), How to Read Paul (Fortress 2021), Christ’s Body in Corinth (Fortress 2008), and Toward Decentering the New Testament (Cascade 2018, co-authored with Mitzi J. Smith). His forthcoming book is How to Read the Gospels (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). He also edited a few volumes: Paul's Gospel, Empire, Race, and Ethnicity (Pickwick, 2023), 1-2 Corinthians: Texts @ Contexts (Fortress 2013), and Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century (Pickwick 2013, co-edited with Jin-ho Kim). He is editing a new collective volume that deals with hermeneutics and homiletics: At the Intersection of Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Transgressive Readings for Transformational Preaching (Pickwick, 2025). Kim's research interests include Pauline studies, the Gospels, biblical hermeneutics, the Bible and mental health, and the Bible and ecology.