Dr. Drake Teaching 2023 Students
Luke Drake is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at BYU in Provo and of Near Eastern Studies at the BYU Jerusalem Center. He received a PhD in Religious Studies (ancient Mediterranean religions) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Theological Studies (New Testament and Early Christianity) from Harvard Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from BYU. His research centers on early Christian literature and history, including the New Testament and its later reception, Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity, apocryphal literature, and early Christian Gnosticism. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Early Christianity (Johns Hopkins University Press), Vigiliae Christianae (Brill), and New Testament Studies (Cambridge University Press). He also served as general editor of The Emergence of Christianity (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), the third and final volume of collected essays by the Swiss biblical scholar François Bovon.
At Brigham Young University in Provo, he teaches courses on Greek and Roman literature, early Christian and Jewish history, Roman history, ancient Greek, and Latin.
Luke first taught at the Jerusalem Center in 2023, which was interrupted by the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War. He is scheduled to return again in 2026.
He and his wife, Julie, have three children: Pearl, Nicholas, and Thomas. They love spending time together in the Holy Land.
