Vicky Balabanski is Associate Professor at Flinders University South Australia, the Adelaide College of Divinity and Uniting College for Leadership and Theology. She is an editor of the Earth Bible project.

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From Balabanski’s erudite commentary on Colossians, one learns much about the historical, sociocultural, and intellectual context of western Asia Minor in the first century CE, one is drawn into a deeper appreciation of key thematic emphases of the letter to Colossae, one encounters sagacious hermeneutical engagement with a profound New Testament document in view of a major challenge in our day, and one witnesses how biblical interpretation may tap imagination no less than intellect. This volume in the Earth Bible Commentary marks a significant contribution to biblical scholarship that will, I hope, inform discussion of Colossians well into the future.