This essay offers an intellectual history of affect theory within biblical studies. Rendered as an ecology of thought, it describes the landscape of biblical studies through some frictions and discontentments with its legacies, as well as some meaningful encounters under its auspices.

Maia Kotrosits, Ph.D. (2013), Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is Assistant Professor of Religion at Denison University. Her most recent monograph is Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging (Fortress, 2015).