Christopher W Skinner

Christopher W. Skinner (PhD, Catholic University of America) is a scholar of New Testament and Christian origins working at the intersections of narratology, narrative criticism, and historical criticism. His research explores literary and historical questions in the narratives about Jesus both within and outside the New Testament. He has written extensively about narrative-critical issues as well as characterization in the Gospels of John and Mark. He has also written about the scholarly reception of the Gospel of Thomas and New Testament ethics. His additional interests include the reception of Jesus within popular culture and the leveraging of ideas about and images of Jesus and the Bible within contemporary political and religious discourse.

He is the author or editor of 11 books and has published three dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is currently writing a book on the Christology of the Gospel of Mark (Baker Academic, 2026), co-editing a three-volume series devoted to the historical reception of the Fourth Gospel (Baylor University Press, 2027, 2028, 2029), and authoring the Anchor Yale Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas (Yale University Press, 2034).