C. Kavin Rowe is an associate professor at Duke Divinity School. His academic research focuses primarily on the New Testament. His first book, “Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke,” explores the identity of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke. Rowe has been a Fulbright Scholar, Regional Scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature, Chair of the Society’s Southeastern Region New Testament section, and was elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He has received a Lilly Faculty Fellowship, a Christian Faith and Life Grant from the Louisville Institute and, most recently, was one of 12 scholars worldwide to receive the John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise. His most recent book is “World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age.” He also co-edited “The Word Leaps the Gap” (Eerdmans, 2008) and "Rethinking the Unity and Reception of Luke and Acts" (University of South Carolina Press, 2010).