Description: "In Reading the Bible on Turtle Island, Hoklotubbe and Zacharias root their reading of Scripture not only in their social locations but also in their communities and landscapes. Through the intersection of Scripture, Cultural Traditions, Hearts and Minds, and Creation, Hoklotubbe and Zacharias affirm Creator's presence with indigenous people since the beginning. Recognizing Jesus as a brown-skinned Indigenous man whose land was colonized, Jesus was shaped by the stories of his people and the revelations that came from Creator and were written down by the Hebrew prophets. Indigenous individuals have been adopted into the global and multi-ethnic family of Jesus; he is our elder brother. As we are now adopted into his family as kin, his ancestral stories and histories have now become part of our stories and histories as we join into the faith family of Abraham. Hoklotubbe and Zacharias invite these Scriptural stories, as well as their previous stories, to join the dance circle of formation for indigenous believers"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description:
T. Christopher Hoklotubbe (ThD, Harvard) is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He is the director of graduate studies of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, the first accredited Indigenous designed, developed, delivered, and governed theological institute. He is also assistant professor of classics at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, Iowa). He is the author of Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire, which was awarded the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters and live near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Review Quotes:
"We have been waiting for a book like this--one that presents indigenous biblical interpretation. T. Christopher Hoklotubbe and H. Daniel Zacharias call their approach to biblical interpretation Turtle Island Hermeneutics. I call it groundbreaking, urgent, and necessary at this present moment. Now students studying the Bible in seminary or college will have a text that will help them do what few books on interpretation can do--take the dirt, the water, the air, our animal kin, and of course, indigenous thought and life seriously. We are now in a new day for biblical scholarship."
--Willie James Jennings, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School