Reading The Exodus Story on Turtle Island

Dr. T. Christopher Hoklotubbe is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and holds a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Theology from Harvard Divinity School. He is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Cornell College in Mount Vernon Iowa and the Director of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community - the first Indigenous designed, developed, delivered, and governed seminary to be accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.

His first book, “Civilized Piety: The Rhetoric of Pietas in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire” (Baylor University Press, 2017), brings together his research interests in early Christianity, Greco-Roman archaeology, and ancient philosophy and was awarded the international Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. His work on the Letters of Timothy and Titus has been featured in many edited volumes, including the Westminster John Knox Study Bible, The State of Pauline Epistles, and The Dictionary of Paul and his Letters. He is currently co-writing a book with Cree First Nations biblical scholar, Danny Zacharias entitled: Reading the Bible on Turtle Island: An Invitation to Indigenous Interpretation to be published with InterVarsity Press in November 2025. An introduction to his and Danny’s work can be found now in the New Testament in Color, which was just nominated as the best book in biblical studies by Christianity Today for 2024.

Sponsored by

The Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins (ISAC), Department of Religious Studies, and Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies.

This event is free and open to all public.

Host or Publisher University of Texas at Austin, Department of Religious Studies