Encountering Diversity in Indian Biblical Studies: A Biblical Masala

This book provides analysis of biblical narratives and texts which are the vehicle for the expression, articulation and performance of diverse identities in the Indian context. It is suitable for students, scholars, and researchers working on postcolonial biblical studies and diversity in Christianity.

Zhodi Angami is Professor of New Testament and Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, India. He earned a PhD in New Testament from the University of Divinity, Australia. His special areas of interest are Jesus, the Gospels, the history and formation of the Bible and tribal interpretation of the Bible. His publications include Tribals, Empire and God: A Tribal Reading of the Birth of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel (2017) and The Making of the Bible (2017).

David J. Chalcraft is Professor of Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and formerly Chair of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield (2011-2014). He has long been associated with the analysis of classical sociology and with the use of sociology in biblical studies, editing such volumes as Social Scientific Old Testament Criticism (1995), Sectarianism in Early Judaism: Sociological Advances (2007) and Theories, Methods and Imagination (with Frauke Uhlenbruch and Rebecca S Watson) (2014).