Time means different things to different people and can be conceived in a range of ways. Indigenous ways of approaching the idea of time often stand in contrast to the linear, Western modes of historical progress. Earth with its ancient geological foundations provides another perspective to consider time, including the more recent developments of climate change and destruction of the
natural environment. Christians often root their understanding of time within the narratives and ideas presented within the Bible. The proposed volume is part of a larger project considering the intersection of time, Country and the Bible.

There are five key aspects to the project:

1. Situating the project in the context of Indigenous understandings of time;
2. Listening together for differences across cultures with respect to understandings of and relations to time;
3. Surveying existing (and if necessary contributing to new) research on biblical understandings of time;
4. Analysing the advent of biblical writings as part of a human timeline and the implications of this for reading biblical narratives in colonial settings where both western and biblical understandings of time interrupt and impact Indigenous life worlds;