Zavi-i Nisa

Zavi-i Nisa is a PhD candidate in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. She is a Langham Scholar, and her research employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore how diverse Christian readers in South Asia engage with the Bible, with a particular focus on Mark 5:1–20. Her work examines how biblical texts are mediated, embodied, and experienced within different Christian communities (Baptists, Charismatics and Catholics) and how these processes generate phenomena of orality, linguistic experience, memory, and intertextuality. Her wider research interests include ethnography in biblical hermeneutics, nonhuman agencies in the gospels, socio-cultural context of the gospels, translation studies, and the reception of the Bible. Alongside her doctoral research, Zavi-i is a researcher with Recover, Restore, and Decolonise (RRaD), contributing to the facilitation of the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains to Nagaland in India, currently housed in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, UK.