K. K. Yeo or YEO Khiok-Khng (, born 1960), is a Malaysian-born Chinese American scholar of the New Testament. He is known for his work in cross-cultural hermeneutics and global theologies. Biography An ethnic Chinese, Yeo was born and raised in a small coastal village called Kampong Teriso in Borneo Sarawak (three years before Sarawak joined the federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963). He identifies his background as “a diasporic Chinese, a hybrid Chinese Christian identity” in multi-cultural Malaysia that shapes his interests in the critical engagement between the Bible and cultures. Yeo completed a BA in Biblical and Theological Studies from St. Paul Bible College in 1987, an MDiv from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1990, and a PhD in New Testament, Classical and Rhetorical Studies at Northwestern University under Robert L. Jewett (2013–2020), Reginald E. Allen (1931–2007), and Michael Leff (1941–2010) in 1992. Career: Theologian, educator, academic Teaching and mentoring Yeo was a professor of New Testament at Alliance Bible Seminary in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996, before becoming Harry R. Kendall Professor of New Testament at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, where he has taught since July 1996. He also served on the graduate school faculty of Northwestern University, Evanston (1997–2008) for the joint Garrett-Northwestern PhD program. Research and cross-cultural hermeneutics Inducted as an elected member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS: Society of New Testament Studies) in 1999, Yeo is also a full member of the Society of Biblical Literature (since 1987) and the Chicago Society of Biblical Research (since 1996). He has served numerous societies, journals, and institutions as an academic committee member, research fellow, and advisory consultant. Yeo is best known for his work advocating for cross-cultural biblical hermeneutics, as found in his dissertation, later published as Rhetorical Interaction in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10: A Formal Analysis with Implications for a Cross-Cultural, Chinese Hermeneutic and his second English book, What Has Jerusalem to Do with Beijing: Biblical Interpretation from a Chinese Perspective. His approach includes the comparison and contrast of biblical and Chinese classical texts, in order to look for similar and unique themes or events as points of mutual critical engagement—"reading the Bible culturally and reading classical cultural texts biblically.” Collaboration and majority world theologies Early in his career in 1994, Yeo and Philip P. Chia co-founded a Chinese-English peer-reviewed theological journal, Jian Dao: A Journal of Bible and Theology, and its two