“Aware-Settler” Biblical Studies: Breaking Claims of Textual Ownership

“Aware-Settler” is a term coined here to describe the various hermeneutics that arise as increasingly, non-Indigenous biblical scholars take seriously that their research is done on colonized Land. Paying special attention to the principle of possessiveness, the article suggests breaking stubborn Se...

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Autor principal:	Matthew R. Anderson
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Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2019
Materias:	aware-settler indigenous settler hermeneutics biblical scholarship The Bible BS1-2970
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f7913775ddc2444ba4bd7dda5d24bbb62021-11-18T14:47:02Z“Aware-Settler” Biblical Studies: Breaking Claims of Textual Ownership2633-069510.17613/wzwr-e062https://doaj.org/article/f7913775ddc2444ba4bd7dda5d24bbb62019-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:26772/CONTENT/3.-anderson-final-proofs-pp-42-68.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695“Aware-Settler” is a term coined here to describe the various hermeneutics that arise as increasingly, non-Indigenous biblical scholars take seriously that their research is done on colonized Land. Paying special attention to the principle of possessiveness, the article suggests breaking stubborn Settler-scholar hidden-default assumptions of ownership, proposing instead that biblical texts might be understood as another form of “Treaty territory.” Indigenous scholars’ common emphases on Landedness, relationality, spirituality, and community good, can inform methodologies employed by Settler biblical scholars. These hermeneutical principles, learned in a contact zone characterized by attention to reciprocity and respect, are employed in a brief look at Matthew 28:25–28. The so-called Great Commission is a foundational text of colonialism; many Indigenous scholars have judged it as “unreadable.” For that reason it provides a particularly appropriate test-case for applying Aware-Settler hermeneutics focussed on breaking claims of identity and ownership.Matthew R. AndersonUniversity of Sheffieldarticleaware-settlerindigenoussettlerhermeneuticsbiblical scholarshipThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 42-68 (2019)
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description	“Aware-Settler” is a term coined here to describe the various hermeneutics that arise as increasingly, non-Indigenous biblical scholars take seriously that their research is done on colonized Land. Paying special attention to the principle of possessiveness, the article suggests breaking stubborn Settler-scholar hidden-default assumptions of ownership, proposing instead that biblical texts might be understood as another form of “Treaty territory.” Indigenous scholars’ common emphases on Landedness, relationality, spirituality, and community good, can inform methodologies employed by Settler biblical scholars. These hermeneutical principles, learned in a contact zone characterized by attention to reciprocity and respect, are employed in a brief look at Matthew 28:25–28. The so-called Great Commission is a foundational text of colonialism; many Indigenous scholars have judged it as “unreadable.” For that reason it provides a particularly appropriate test-case for applying Aware-Settler hermeneutics focussed on breaking claims of identity and ownership.
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“Aware-Settler” Biblical Studies: Breaking Claims of Textual Ownership

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