This book panel creates a conversation between two critical new works focusing on genocide and the Bible, particularly in the context of Gaza:
• Theology After Gaza: A Global Anthology, edited by Mitri Raheb and Graham McGeoch (Wipf and Stock, Cascade Imprint, 2025), assembles theological responses to Israel’s 2023–2024 assault on Gaza. It engages diverse traditions and perspectives on scholars' theological and ethical responsibilities in the face of state violence.
• Gender, Genocide, Gaza and the Book of Esther: Engaging Texts of Terror(ism) by Sarojini Nadar (Routledge, 2025), which applies a decolonial feminist lens to the Book of Esther and interrogates the co-constitutive relationship between sexual and ethnic violence in both the biblical text and its contemporary reception.