Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics - Humans, Nonhumans, and the Living Landscape

Engages with the social cosmos of the Bible, in which all creatures, even 'inanimate' ones, are alive and able to interact.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Interacting with the world: 'new animism', metaphor theory, and personalistic nature texts; 3. A watchful world: personalistic nature texts in the Torah; 4. A sentient world: personalistic nature texts in the Prophets; 5. An articulate world: personalistic nature texts in the Writings; 6. Conclusion: befriending the world.

About the author

Mari Joerstad is Research Associate at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, North Carolina, where she works on Facing the Anthropocene, a project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.

Summary

This book argues that in the Hebrew Bible, non-animal nature (trees, mountains, clouds, soil, waterways) is alive and able to interact with other creatures. The book is for scholars and lay readers interested in the Bible's contribution to environmental ethics and ancient Israelite understandings of nature.

Product details

• Authors: Mari Joerstad, Mari (Duke University Joerstad, JOERSTAD MARI
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108476447
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47644-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Theology, Judaism, Religious ethics, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Judaism: theology, Old Testaments