Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom serves as the academic dean of Covenant Seminary in Tokyo and as the associate pastor of Tsurumi Covenant Church in Yokohama. He is the author of The Roman Empire in Luke’s Narrative (T&T Clark, 2010) and a contributor to Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 2nd ed. (IVP, 2013). He currently lives in Yokohama with his family.