Mari Joerstad

The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476447
• ISBN-10: 1108476449
• Artikelnr.: 54469528

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.