Dr. Eunyung Lim joined the LSTC faculty in July 2018. She holds both a Master of Divinity and a Doctor of Theology from Harvard University. She uses historical-critical methods, feminist and contextual hermeneutics, and anthropological insights to explain the inextricable relationship between biblical texts and their historical and cultural contexts. Her research areas include the New Testament, Nag Hammadi Library, and ancient Mediterranean cultures. In particular, she pays careful attention to the marginalized voices in the New Testament, such as children, women, slaves, and people with disabilities, and explores how their portrayals were understood and employed in ancient Christian discourse. Her forthcoming monograph, Entering God’s Kingdom (Not) Like A Little Child, investigates images of little children in the Gospel of Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Thomas vis-à-vis a set of philosophical, historical, and archaeological materials concerning ancient children and childhood. This book sheds new light on the ways in which early Christ followers deploy various aspects of children in order to articulate an ideal human condition in which to enter God’s kingdom.

Prior to coming to LSTC, Lim taught at Harvard College as a teaching fellow for general education courses on the Hebrew Bible. She also served as an editorial assistant for Harvard Theological Review and was a visiting lecturer in New Testament at the College of the Holy Cross. She received Harvard’s Derek Bok Teaching Certificate, specializing in intercultural and multimodal communication. Lim is committed to pursuing an innovative and contextualized pedagogy, often adopting music, visuals, and performances for her classes. Her teaching has been recognized four times with the Harvard University Distinction in Teaching award, and her pedagogy article, “Teaching ‘Greek for Ministry’ in a Multicultural Classroom,” appears in The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching.