Conspectus

Shane L. Williamson is a Ph.D. student in New Testament under the supervision of Dr. J. T. Pennington at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He holds a M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and works as an academic assistant to the faculty. His research interests concern the Gospels, Torah reception, early Christianity, and hermeneutics.

Jesse Fungwa Kipimo holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of South Africa (UNISA). His areas of expertise include Missiology, Pentecostal and charismatic studies, Pneumatology, Discipleship, African Christianity, marriage, and family. He is the Head of Program Delivery, a Postgraduate Supervisor, and a Lecturer at the South African Theological Seminary. He is the current moderator for the Francophone African Theologians’ network, gathering more than three hundred scholars. Dr. Kipimo is an author of several Christian books and articles, an ordained minister of the gospel under the Pentecostal Assemblies of God, and a founding pastor for the Liberating Truth Mission Church International in Lubumbashi, DRC.

Daniel Webster holds an M.Th. from Moore Theological College in Sydney. He is an Australian privileged to live and teach in Namibia at the Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary. He lectures in Systematic Theology, Biblical Studies, and practical ministry. His research interests include African contextual theology and the use of Jesus Tradition in the Pauline Epistles.

Zwandien Bobai holds an M.A. in Biblical Studies (Old Testament) from ECWA Theological Seminary, Kagoro. At this seminary, he is a tutor in Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Old Testament, as well as Assistant Registrar and Dean of Student Affairs. He has a keen interest in understanding the Bible from an exegetical and theological perspective since a good grasp of the original language engenders good contextual readings of the Bible.

Maxwell Chiwoko Banda holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the South African Theological Seminary. He is a Malawian academic and ordained minister of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Nkhoma Synod. His academic interests include Biblical Hebrew linguistics, Bible translation, exegesis, Old Testament studies, and New Testament textual criticism. From 2016 to 2024, he was an academic at Nkhoma University in Malawi before joining the South African Theological Seminary (SATS), where he now serves as a Biblical Studies Lecturer and the Book Review Editor of Conspectus. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Pretoria. Dr. Banda has contributed to Bible translation projects with Biblica Malawi and Scriptura and has published a book and several articles in international, peer-reviewed journals. He lives with his wife, Alice, and their children in Lilongwe, Malawi, where he serves as a congregation minister.

Jiofack Kana C. Jésus is an ordained minister of the Cameroon Baptist Convention. He holds a Ph.D. in Missiology from the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also earned a Maîtrise in Linguistics and African Language and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Dschang, in Cameroon. His areas of research include African missiology, contextual theologies, African philosophy and ethics, and applied linguistics.

Kayle Pelletier is an American missionary involved in African theological education since 2006. Having taught at the Theological College of Zimbabwe (TCZ) for 7 years, she now teaches homiletics and biblical studies courses at the South African Theological Seminary (SATS). She holds an M.Div. and an M.Th. in Old Testament from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at SATS in the field of Practical Theology.

Dr. Dustin Burlet holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament from McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) and teaches theology and biblical studies at Millar College of the Bible (Winnipeg, MB). He has published articles in a variety of journals such as Didakitos, Theodidakitos, Canadian American Theological Review, Torch Trinity Journal, The Messenger, and Canon & Culture. His current research explores hyperbole and rhetoric (persuasion) in dialogue with Noah’s Flood in Genesis.

Ishaya Anthony is an Anglican priest and Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Kwoi, Kaduna State, Nigeria. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Theological Studies (University of the Western Cape) and Educational Science (Ghent University). Ishaya is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg and was the 2025 inaugural Commonwealth Theologian at Westminster Abbey, London. His research covers Practical Theology, religious media, education, ecumenism, Anglicanism, and the African Union Agenda 2063.