DR. Raj Nadella

Dr. Raj Nadella is the Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. His research interests include postcolonial biblical interpretation, migration and New Testament perspectives on economic justice and their implications for the Church and society. Nadella is the author of Dialogue Not Dogma: Many Voices in the Gospel of Luke (Bloomsbury, 2011), co-editor of Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of Postcolonialism and the Bible (forthcoming). He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Bible, Race and Diaspora. Nadella serves on the editorial boards of Currents in Biblical Research, The Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature, Semeia Studies and Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies. He has written for publications such as Working Preacher, The Christian Century, On Scripture @ The Huffington Post and Sojourners. 

Nadella is a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has spoken and preached in numerous academic and ecclesial settings, including on Day1 Radio and at the Princeton University chapel.