Cornell College Assistant Professor of Religion Chris Hoklotubbe will read from his new book, Reading the Bible on Turtle Island: An Invitation to North American Indigenous Interpretation, which he coauthored with H. Daniel Zacharias. Hoklotubbe will be joined in conversation with Robert Cargill, who is the departmental executive officer of the Classics department and associate professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Iowa.
Described by publisher InterVarsity Press as an exploration of "what it means to read the Bible from the lens of Indigenous peoples in North America," Reading the Bible on Turtle Island is praised by Willie James Jennings, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School, as "groundbreaking, urgent, and necessary at this present moment," while Terry LeBlanc, director emeritus and elder in residence of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community, says: "Some years ago, I was told that Indigenous contributions to biblical scholarship would, at best, be superficial. The real work, after all, had already been done by European scholars. Reading the Bible on Turtle Island justifies my contention that this was not so. T. Christopher Hoklotubbe and H. Daniel Zacharias unpack Indigenous understandings of the biblical narrative for us in profoundly earthy and culturally complex ways."
Dr. T. Christopher Hoklotubbe (Choctaw) teaches courses on the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in the Christian Tradition, the New Testament, Roman Religion, Native American Spiritualities, World Religions, and Religion and American Politics. He also co-leads interdisciplinary off-campus courses that explore the theme of pilgrimage along "El Camino de Santiago" in Northern Spain (Summer 2021, with Spanish), the topics of ancient philosophy, religion, politics, and archaeology in Greece and Turkey (Spring 2021, with Classics), and the history, art, and culture of North American Indigenous tribes (2022-23, with Art History). Originally from Southern California (25 miles east of Disneyland), Chris now happily enjoys the four seasons of Mount Vernon, Iowa, living blocks from campus with his wife Stephanie and two young daughters, Claire and Emily.
Dr. Robert Cargill is the author of Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King (Oxford University Press, 2019). He published The Cities that Built the Bible (HarperOne, 2016), which was released in paperback in 2017, as well as in Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified, and Japanese translations. He has also done extensive work in television, appearing as an expert on ABC's "Good Morning America", "Inside Edition", CNN's "Newsday", and served as a consultant and contributor for History's "Jesus: His Life," as the Jerusalem host for CNN's "Finding Jesus," Consulting Producer on History's "Bible Secrets Revealed" and hosting the NatGeo documentary "Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls." He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, American Schools of Oriental Research, Biblical Archaeology Society, Archaeological Institute of America, American Humanist Association, American Mensa, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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