READING THE BIBLE ON TURTLE ISLAND AN INVITATION TO NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS INTERPRETATION
November 18, 2025 RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics 978-1-5140-0756-3, 240 pages, PBK, 6 x 9 inches, $26.99
Biblical Studies Join the Dance of North American Indigenous Interpretations of Christian Scripture
In Reading the Bible on Turtle Island , Indigenous scholars Chris Hoklotubbe and Danny Zacharias explore what it means to read the Bible from the lens of Indigenous peoples in North America. Exploring the intersection of Scripture, Cultural Traditions, Hearts and Minds, and Creation, they affirm Creator’s presence with Indigenous people since the beginning. By recovering these rich histories, this book offers a fresh reading of Scripture that celebrates the assets, blessings, and insights of Indigenous interpretation. In Reading the Bible on Turtle Island , Hoklotubbe and Zacharias: • Affirm the dignity and value of Indigenous cultures and their contributions to hermeneutics. • Explore the intersection of the Bible with Indigenous traditions. • Delve deeply into the stories of Scripture alongside the complex histories of Indigenous communities in North America. • Celebrate the unique blessings and insights of Indigenous interpretation. • Offer a fresh, transformative reading of the Bible that speaks to all of God’s people.
“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 “For the first time ever, many Indigenous people have read themselves into the biblical story and, together with the authors, have answered Lamin Sanneh’s 2003 question, ‘Whose religion is Christianity?’ ‘It’s ours,’ they have said!” Terry LeBlanc, director emeritus and elder in residence of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community
H. Daniel Zacharias is a Cree-Anishinaabe/Métis and Austrian man originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty One territory), with ancestors also residing in Treaty Two, Treaty Three, and Treaty Five territories. He is associate dean and professor of New Testament studies at Acadia Divinity College, where he has worked since 2007. He also serves as an adjunct faculty for NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community. T. Christopher Hoklotubbe 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.
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