The Hebrew Bible and environmental ethics: humans, non-humans, 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.
| Résumé: | Engages with the social cosmos of the Bible, in which all creatures, even 'inanimate' ones, are alive and able to interact. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Two Trees: Fryd and Glede -- Two Aims: Exegesis and Ecology -- Strangeness and Ethics -- Outline -- 2 Interacting with the World: ''New Animism,'' Metaphor Theory, and Personalistic Nature Texts -- Introduction -- ''Losing Your Concepts'': Cora Diamond, Personalistic Nature Texts, and Articulating Conceptual Distance -- ''New Animism'' -- Metaphor and Relationality -- Personalistic Nature Texts and Patience -- 3 A Watchful World: Personalistic Nature Texts in the Torah -- Introduction -- Genesis -- Genesis 1: The Earth Brought Forth . . . -- Genesis 4: The Soil . . . Opened Its Mouth -- Genesis 31:48, 52: The Witness Stone -- Genesis 47:13-26: Should We Die . . . Us and Our Land? -- Exodus -- Exodus 15:12: Earth Swallowed . . . -- Leviticus -- Leviticus 18:24-28: The Earth Vomited . . . -- Leviticus 19:29: That the Land Not Prostitute Itself . . . -- Leviticus 25 and 26: The Land is to Rest . . . -- Leviticus 26:42-43a: I Will Remember the Land . . . -- Numbers -- Numbers 13:32: A Land That Devours Its Inhabitants -- Numbers 16:30-34 and 26:10 (with Deuteronomy 11:6 and Psalm 106:17): The Earth Opened Its Mouth -- Numbers 21:17-18: The Song of the Well -- Deuteronomy -- Deuteronomy 4:26, 30:19, 31:28, and 32:1: I Call to Witness the Heavens and the Earth -- Deuteronomy 32:43: He Will Atone for His Soil -- A Note on Idioms and Metonymy -- Conclusion -- 4 A Sentient World: Personalistic Nature Texts in the Prophets -- Introduction -- War -- Theophany -- Address -- Grief -- Joy -- Conclusion -- 5 An Articulate World: Personalistic Nature Texts in the Writings -- Introduction -- Declaration in the Psalms -- Job's Negotiation with His Place -- Boundaries and Bliss -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion: Befriending the World. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1108759750 |