Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical Studies

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable Mention

SOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable Mention

In a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:



- Multiethnic

- Diverse

- Contextual

- Informative

- Reflective

- Prophetic

- Inspiring

"I wish someone had handed The New Testament in Color to me twenty-five years ago, and I hope many will read it now." —Nijay Gupta, bestselling author of Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church.

Historically, Bible commentaries have focused on the particular concerns of a limited segment of the church, all too often missing fresh questions and perspectives that are fruitful for biblical interpretation. Listening to scholars from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities offers us an opportunity to explore the Bible from a wider angle, a better vantage point.

The New Testament in Color is a one-volume commentary on the New Testament written by a multiethnic team of scholars holding orthodox Christian beliefs. Each scholar brings exegetical expertise coupled with a unique interpretive lens to illuminate the ways social location and biblical interpretation work together. Theologically orthodox and multiethnically contextual, The New Testament in Color fills a gap in biblical understanding for both the academy and the church. Who we are and where God placed us—it's all useful for better understanding his Word.



Jarvis J. Williams (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous books, including Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: ABiblical Theology of the People of God, Christ Redeemed 'Us' from the Curse of the Law: A Jewish Martyrological Reading of Galatians 3:13, and a commentary on Galatians in the New Covenant Commentary Series.







H. Daniel Zacharias (PhD, Highland Theological College/Aberdeen) is a Cree-Anishinaabe/Métis and Austrian man originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty One territory), with ancestors also residing in Treaty Two, Treaty Three, and Treaty Five territories. He lives in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia) with his wife, Maria, and four children in Wolfville, NS. He is associate dean and professor of New Testament studies at Acadia Divinity College, where he has worked since 2007. He also serves as an adjunct faculty for NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community.







Miguel Echevarría (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Future Inheritance of Land in the Pauline Epistles,40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, Engaging the New Testament: A Short Introduction for Students and Ministers, and Reading the Bible Latinamente: Latino/a Interpretation for the Life of the Church. He has also publishedshort commentaries on the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles in IVP Academic's New Testament in Color.







T. Christopher Hoklotubbe (ThD, Harvard) is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the director of graduate studies of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, the first accredited Indigenous designed, developed, delivered, and governed theological institute. He is also assistant professor of classics at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa). He is the author of Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire, which was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters and live near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.







Kay Higuera Smith (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is on the faculty of Azusa Pacific University in biblical and religious studies and practical theology.







Gene L. Green (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is the dean of Trinity International University-Florida and professor emeritus of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School. He is the author of Vox Petri: A Theology of Peter and coeditor of Global Theology in Evangelical Perspective.







Dennis R. Edwards (PhD, Catholic University of America) is associate professor of New Testament as well as vice president for church relations and dean of North Park Seminary, Chicago. He has worked in urban ministry for over three decades, including serving as a church planter in Brooklyn and Washington, DC. His books include Might from the Margins and the Story of God Bible Commentary on 1 Peter.







Osvaldo Padilla (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of The Acts of the Apostles, The Speeches of Outsiders in Acts, and numerous articles and reviews.







Amy Peeler is the Kenneth T. Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College and Associate Priest at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, IL. She is the author of Women and the Gender of God and a commentary on Hebrews.







Esau McCaulley (PhD, St. Andrews) is associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is the author of Reading While Black and Sharing in the Son's Inheritance, as well as the children's book Josie Johnson's Hair and the Holy Spirit. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife and four children.



Acknowledgments



Introduction

Esau D. McCaulley



African American Biblical Interpretation

Esau D. McCaulley



Asian American Biblical Interpretation

Janette H. Ok



Hispanic Biblical Interpretation

Osvaldo Padilla



Turtle Island Biblical Interpretation

T. Christopher Hoklotubbe (Choctaw) and H. Daniel Zacharias (Cree-Anishinaabe)



Majority-Culture Biblical Interpretation: Reading While White

Michael J. Gorman



Gospel of Matthew

H. Daniel Zacharias



Gospel of Mark

Kay Higuera Smith



Gospel of Luke

Diane G. Chen



Gospel of John

Miguel G. Echevarria



Gender in the New Testament

Lisa M. Bowens and Amy Peeler



Acts

Jordan J. Cruz Ryan



Letter to the Romans

Jarvis J. Williams



First Letter to the Corinthians

Gene L. Green



Second Letter to the Corinthians

Julie Newberry



Letter to the Galatians

Eric C. Redmond



Letter to the Ephesians

Esau D. McCaulley



Letter to the Philippians

M. Sydney Park



Letter to the Colossians

Dennis R. Edwards



Letters to the Thessalonians

Marcus Jerkins



Pastoral Letters

Osvaldo Padilla



Letter to Philemon

Dennis R. Edwards



Letter to the Hebrews

Madison N. Pierce



Resources for the Mental Health of the Oppressed in the New Testament: A Contemporary Reading of Ancient Teachings

Cristin J. Fort



Multilingualism in the New Testament

Ekaputra Tupamahu



Immigrants and the Kingdom of God: Do They Have a Home in God's City?

Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III



Letter of James

Daniel K. Eng



First Letter of Peter

Janette H. Ok



Second Letter of Peter

Mateus F. de Campos



Letters of John

Miguel G. Echevarria



Letter of Jude

Mateus F. de Campos



Revelation

Daniel I. Morrison



List of Contributors