"This book is brilliantly presented with appropriate biblical texts and hermeneutical insights." ( Theology , 1 May 2012) "The book is written by the foremost scholar in this discipline, with an added chapter by, presumably, one of his students to reinforce the point." (Church Times, 21 October 2011) "R. S. Sugirtharajah has not only been the inaugurator of postcolonial biblical criticism but also its most prolific practitioner. His latest book may well turn out to be his most important: a textbook introduction to the field that is eminently accessible to novices, yet so expansive, challenging and profound that old hands will also learn enormously from it." - Stephen D. Moore , Professor of New Testament Studies, The Theological School, Drew University "Sugi is at it again-he has put before his readers another well-written, compellingly-argued, fascinating and challenging read.

Anyone interested in critical biblical studies-biblical studies that analyzes its own operations and agenda in a fraught postcolonial situation--in the early twenty-first century will need to take Sugirtharajah's work very seriously. This book is from my point of view the new starting point for debates and conversations and proposals about postcolonial biblical criticism--and beyond--in the decade ahead." - Vincent L Wimbush , Institute for Signifying Scriptures, Claremont Graduate University.