Holly Beers, Ph.D. (London School of Theology), teaches New Testament and Greek at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. She specializes in 1 Timothy, Colossians, demons and magic in the Greco-Roman world, literary criticism, Luke-Acts, New Testament ecclesiology, Old Testament in the New Testament, Philemon, philosophical hermeneutics, and pneumatic and/or Pentecostal hermeneutics. At heart she simply loves the Bible, wants to understand it well, and help others understand it also. She has authored The Followers of Jesus as the ‘Servant’: Luke’s Model from Isaiah for the Disciples in Luke-Acts (T&T Clark, 2015), as well as A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman (IVP Academic, 2019), but her current passion project is as co-editor for the Word and Spirit Commentary on the New Testament series, for which she also wrote the volume on Colossians and Philemon (Baker Academic, 2025). Her deepest desire is to deeply know and be led by the Holy Spirit, and her discipleship is imperfect (ask her family!) but ongoing.
