Acknowledgments
I cannot imagine a more supportive and stimulating environment to write a book on decolonial biblical criticism than Drew Theological School. I am profoundly grateful to Dean Edwin “Ed” Aponte for administrative research support; to Yajenlemla Chang for practical research support; to my faculty colleagues, so many of whom are passionately committed to decolonizing pedagogies; and above all to the students with whom I am privileged to read and learn. The idea for this book originated in my Bible and decoloniality seminar as an acutely felt need (students from a dozen former colonies in a class of sixteen; the professor on a precipitously steep unlearning curve in consequence; and from that vertiginous height glimpsing much he had not previously seen or imagined).
I am grateful, too, to BRPBI editor Davina Lopez for her receptivity to my idea for the book even when it was still but a 150-word abstract in the mind of its author; and for the entire Brill team that shepherded the manuscript into print.
Beloved former colleague Ada María Isasi-Díaz knew more than I ever will about decolonial thinking, teaching, and actioning. I dedicate this book to her memory.