Anna M.V. Bowden is of mixed Indigenous and non-Indigenous ancestry and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Associate Professor of New Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and author of Revelation and the Marble Economy of Roman Ephesus: A People’s History Approach (Lexington, 2021). Her research and writing focus on the lives of first-century Jesus followers in Roman-controlled cities and on the ways the New Testament demonstrates how early Jesus-followers negotiated their commitment to God’s transformative purposes amidst their colonized context in different ways.

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