Raj Nadella

Raj Nadella is an Indian-American New Testament scholar whose work extends into ecclesial and public settings. He serves as the Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Education
Nadella earned a Bachelor of Theology from Serampore College, India in 1992. He continued his education at United Theological College India, where he received Bachelor of Divinity in 1995, equivalent to a Master of Divinity in the United States. He came to the United States and earned Master of Arts in Biblical Languages at Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, CA in 2000. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament Studies from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia in 2010.
Professional career
Nadella has served as a Visiting Instructor at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA from 2004-2007. He also served as Sabbatical replacement at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Evanston, IL and as Visiting Instructor at Adrian College in Adrian, MI from Fall 2008 to Spring 2011. He was an Adjunct Instructor at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL from 2011 to 2012.
In 2012, he moved to Decatur, Georgia where he was appointed as Assistant Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. He later became an Associate Professor, then in 2019 was named the Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament.
Nadella also initiated and co-led two signature conferences at Columbia Seminary: Bible, Empire, and Reception History in 2015, and Migrations and Border Crossings in 2019. Bible, Empire, and Reception History brought together scholars from several continents ahead of the Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Migration and Border Crossings likewise brought together scholars from several continents in partnership with the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University featuring keynote speakers Juan Felipe Herrera and Emilie Townes.
His work has appeared in publications such as The Huffington Post, Christian Century, and Working Preacher. Since 2018, he has served as an area editor for Oxford Bibliographies: Biblical Studies. Nadella was one of two biblical scholars who led the PC(USA) General Assembly Bible Study in 2018. In 2020, Patheos featured him as one of 50 NT scholars to follow.
Selected publications
*Dialogue Not Dogma: Many Voices in the Gospel of Luke. Continuum/T&T Clark, 2011; paperback, 2012.
*Postcolonialism and the Bible, co-authored with Steed Davidson. The book delineates the origins, history, and new directions in postcolonial biblical studies. T&T Clark, forthcoming, 2022.
*Christianity and the Law of Migration, co-edited with Silas Allard and Kristin Heyer. Routledge, 2021.

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