Dr. J.P. O’Connor
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Associate ProfessorEducation Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary B.A. Northwest University
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JP O’Connor is the Associate Professor of New Testament at Northwest University. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He is an alum of NU, where he completed his BA in Biblical Literature. After serving as a pastor at a church plant in Lakewood Washington he went on to earn his MDiv. and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. His research and teaching interests include morality and ethics within Second Temple Judaism.
He loves coffee, running, playing chess, and spending time with his family. Please reach out to connect!
Books
- An Anatomy of the Early Church: The Identity and Practices of the First Christians. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2027.
- The Last Shall Be First: Divine Judgment in the Gospel of Mark. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2024.
- The Moral Life according to Mark. New York: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2022.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- “A Soul’s Second Chance: The Testament of Abraham and Traditions of Praying for the Dead.” Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha (2026): 1–15.
- “‘Spiritual Blindness’ in the Bartimaeus Pericope (Mark 10:46–52): Toward Decentering Ableist Readings.” Biblical Interpretation 32.1 (2024): 52–70.
- “Between Imagination and Practice: Pauline Theology and Burying the Dead at Corinth.” Novum Testamentum 66.1 (2023): 58–79.
- “Void of Ethics No More: The Gospel of Mark and New Testament Ethics.” Currents in Biblical Research 20 (2022): 165–85.
- “Moral Accountability According to Mark.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 83.4 (2021): 599–618.
- “The Devil will Flee: James 4:7, the Jesus Tradition, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Journal of Biblical Literature 138 (2019): 883–97.
- “Genesis 2:7 in Conversation: The Exegesis of Paul, Philo, and the Hodayot.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 110 (2019): 84–103.
- “Satan and Sitis: The Significance of Clothing Changes in the Testament of Job.” Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha 26.4 (2017): 305–19.
Research and Teaching Interests
Synoptic Gospels; Paul; Second Temple Judaism; New Testament Ethics; Apocalyptic Literature and Theology.