About The New Testament in Color
An interview with Amy Peeler
EV: What led you to edit this book? What problem or issue(s) are you seeking to address?
AP: We wanted to provide, in one volume, a beautiful example of socially located exegesis, attentive to the power and authority of the Biblical text in its historical context along with insights that are born out of one’s culture and experience. In an age in which students of the Bible want to hear from brothers and sisters who come from different perspectives, they can find that in this volume.
EV: What is the thesis of your book?
AP: Every different ethnic community brings particular gifts to the interpretation of God’s word.
EV: Who’s your target audience, and what are you most hoping they hear from it?
AP: Pastors and students of the New Testament. We hope they hear that the riches of God’s word are inexhaustible and we need the whole body of Christ to hear them.
EV: Did you have any “aha” moments while writing the book?
AP: I wrote the article on gender with my friend Lisa Bowens. There were several aha moments in which I realized her research into early enslaved interpreters allowed her to see challenges in the text that I had missed.
EV: What was the most challenging part of the book?
AP: Respecting such a wide number and diversity of authors was challenging at times, but well worth it!
EV: What kind of seminary/church classes should assign your book?
AP: All of them who teach New Testament, which is all of them. 
About the Editors
Esau McCaulley (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Jonathan Blanchard Associate Professor of New Testament and Public Theology at Wheaton College.
Janette H. Ok (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary.
Osvaldo Padilla (PhD, King’s College, University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School.
Amy Peeler (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College.