Brigitte Kahl

A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural tour de force, Senegalese-American New Testament scholar Aliou Niang introduces two new voices into current debates about African Traditional Religion, ecology, postcolonialism, and the Bible: Léopold Sédar Senghor whose seminal ideas on Négritude and a ‘civilization of the universal’ have been neglected for too long, and the earth-centered wisdom of Niang’s own native Diola culture—glimpses of ancient indigenous survival knowledge strikingly relevant in times of global ecological crisis. A fascinating book!”

Religion and Illness

World Religions

“Finally a cross-disciplinary scholarly compendium on religion and illness in a breathtakingly rich selection of texts, contexts, and topics. Invaluable as a resource for all interested in a more integrative approach towards medicine at the intersection of health and the holy, body and spirit, healing and theology.”

Signs of Change

Theology

“A biblical theology of nonviolence: this book, both seasoned and entirely fresh in its rigorous ‘biblicality,’ persuasively reads the Christian canon as a cohesive story of re-signification and transformation towards non-retaliation. Exciting in the bold sweep of its storytelling yet firmly grounded in the generative matrix of the text, it opens up striking reencounters with Exodus, Job, the suffering servant, Jonah, Jesus, Paul, and the Slaughtered Lamb.”

Text, Image, and Christians in the Graeco-Roman World

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“From captivating glimpses into the microcosm of ancient households to the broader question of a hermeneutics of images, from Christian house churches to visual representations and archeology in the interaction with texts-this is a strikingly rich collection of stimulating essays that each in their own way illustrate the breadth and fecundity of David Balch's scholarship, as well as his great capacity to impel multi-faceted questions and inquiries that are re-defining New Testament Studies.”