Introducing Jeepney Hermeneutics: Reading the Bible as Canaanites

This chapter is a “reading in front of texts” by a Filipino of pericopes from Matthew’s Gospel. It aims to show how Filipino perspectives generated in resistance to imperialism and colonialism highlight certain aspects of the biblical texts and of their historical contexts that remain hidden when they are read from European-American perspectives. The author offers an example of a “Canaanite” reading to contribute to the developing archive of resistance and liberation discourses from the Third World and Fourth World or the so-called Global South; a reading aimed to disrupt and challenge the hegemony of Western scholarship in biblical studies, especially in plural Asia.