Rev. James Chukwuma Okoye, C.S.Sp., L.S.S. (PIB, Rome, 1975), is CTU Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies. James earned the MA in Biblical Languages (Oxford, England, 1977) and the D.Phil., Targums (Oxford, 1980). He was a member of the International Theological Commission, 1986-91. His latest publications include the following. Genesis 1—11: A Narrative Theological Commentary. Second revised edition (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, forthcoming); Understanding the Synod on Synodality, 2023 Session: A Community of Mutual Empowerment. Eugene Or.: Wipf & Stock, 2024; Genesis 12—50: A Narrative Theological Commentary (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020); “In the Person of Christ”: Reflections on Priestly Spirituality. Pittsburgh: Center for Spiritan Studies, 2020; Genesis 1—11: A Narrative Theological Commentary (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018); Scripture in the Church. The Synod on the Word of God and the Post-Synodal Exhortation Verbum Domini (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2011); Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006). At Home with the Word 2006: Sunday Scriptures and Scripture Insights, James Chukwuma Okoye et al. (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2005).

He has published over sixty peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books.

General editor of the African American Catholic Youth Bible (St. Mary’s Press, 2015), he is the current editor of Spiritan Horizons. Other edited works include the following. Charism and Mission Since Vatican II. Superiors’ General Letters to the Spiritan Congregation, 1968-2020. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications; Mission to Kilimanjaro. The Founding History of a Catholic Mission in East Africa. Eugene, OR.: Wipf & Stock, 2019; Bishop Godfrey Mary Paul Okoye, C.S.Sp. Retreat Conferences. 2nd Revised Edition. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh: Center for Spiritan Studies, 2015; Provisional Rule of Father Libermann. Text and Commentary. Duquesne University: Center for Spiritan Studies, 2015.