K. K. Yeo

Yeo Khiok-khng was born in Malaysia to a Chinese family, took his doctorate at Northwestern, and teaches New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He writes in English and Chinese, and much of his significance lies in the second: he has produced biblical commentary for Chinese readers at a time when the Chinese church has grown faster than its access to serious scholarship.

His method is comparative and deliberately two-way. Musing with Confucius and Paul reads Romans alongside the Confucian tradition — not to blend them, but to let each expose what the other assumes. A Western reader discovers that questions they took to be simply "what the text says" were shaped by Augustine and Luther; a Chinese reader finds that Paul is asking about honour, family and social order in ways the Western commentaries barely notice.

He also edited the Oxford handbook on the Bible in China, which is the standard entry point to a history most Western Christians do not know they are missing.