Tat-siong Benny Liew
Adjunct Faculty, Biblical Studies
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education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Olivet Nazarene University
B.A., Olivet Nazarene University
biography
Tat-siong Benny Liew is a Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. He is the author of Politics of Parousia (Brill, 1999) and What Is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). In addition, he is the editor of the Semeia volume on “The Bible in Asian America” (with Gale Yee; SBL, 2002), Postcolonial Interventions (Sheffield Phoenix, 2009), They Were All Together in One Place? (with Randall Bailey and Fernando Segovia; SBL 2009), Reading Ideologies (Sheffield Phoenix, 2011), Psychoanalytical Mediations between Marxist and Postcolonial Readings of the Bible (with Erin Runions; SBL, 2016), Present and Future of Biblical Studies (Brill, 2018), Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South (with Fernando Segovia; Lexington, 2018), Theologies of the Multitudes for Multitudes (with Rita Nakashima Brock, Claremont, 2021), Reading Biblical Texts Together (with Fernando Segovia, SBL Press, 2022), Race and Biblical Studies (with Shelly Matthews, SBL Press, 2022), Divided Worlds? (with Caroline Johnson Hodge and Timothy A. Joseph (SBL Press, 2023), Reading in These Times (with Fernando Segovia; SBL Press 2024). Liew is also the Series Editor of T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the New Testament (Bloomsbury). As well as having served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Religion and the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, he received the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Forum for Theological Exploration in 2021 and acted as the Interim Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature for six months in 2023.