Markus Bockmuehl is Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Keble College. After degrees from the University of British Columbia, Regent College and Cambridge, his career included professorships at Cambridge and St Andrews, arriving at Oxford in 2007. His research lies at the intersection of biblical exegesis with early Christian as well as Jewish belief and practice. He is the author or editor of about twenty books ranging in topic from Jesus to Philippians, and from New Testament interpretation to the apocryphal gospels. A book on the presence of the exalted Jesus in the New Testament is scheduled for publication in August 2027. Markus is actively engaged in an initiative to mentor postdoctoral early career theologians in Asia and Africa.