JOHNSON THOMASKUTTY is a professor of New Testament and the chairperson of the biblical studies department at United Theological College, Bengaluru, India. He holds a PhD from Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands. He is the author of "Dialogue in the Book of Signs: A Polyvalent Analysis of John 1:19-12:50" (Brill, 2015) and "Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions"(Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018), as well as editor of "An Asian Introduction to the New Testament" (Fortress, 2022).