Mark G. Brett

Whitley College

Prof. Mark G. Brett is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Whitley College, University of Divinity (Melbourne, Australia). He holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament and Philosophy from the University of Sheffield and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Brett is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and has edited several volumes, including Ethnicity and the Bible (1996) and most recently (with Rachelle Gilmour) Political Theologies in the Hebrew Bible (Brill, forthcoming). He is the author of Biblical Criticism in Crisis (Cambridge, 1991); Genesis: Procreation and the Politics of Identity (Routledge, 2000); Decolonizing God (Sheffield 2008); Political Trauma and Healing (Eerdmans, 2016), and Locations of God: Political Theology in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford, 2019).

Last Updated: April 17, 2026

Books by the Author

Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire

Political Trauma and Healing: Biblical Ethics for a Postcolonial World

Locations of God: Political Theology in the Hebrew Bible

Biblical Criticism in Crisis?

Ethnicity and the Bible

Genesis: Procreation and the Politics of Identity

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The Nations of Abraham: Explaining Israel’s Position in the Persian Empire

God promises Abram that his descendants will be a great nation in Genesis 12, while in Genesis 17, Abraham and Sarah are to become the forebears of a multitude of nations. A postcolonial analysis highlights how each image reflects a different way that Judeans grappled with their place and future in a world ruled by the vast and powerful Persian Empire.

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