Does the Bible have anything to contribute to contemporary concerns about the environment? This collection of essays on the Bible and ecology explores biblical texts and their interpretation in the light of ecological issues. The handbook covers a number of political and ethical issues, as well as offering detailed exploration of individual Bible books. It discusses a number of controversial views, including whether the Judeo-Christian tradition has contributed to the environmental crisis, and how the Bible is used by climate change deniers.
Does the Bible have anything to contribute to contemporary concerns about the environment? This collection of essays on the Bible and ecology explores biblical texts and their interpretation in the light of ecological issues. The handbook covers a number of political and ethical issues, as well as offering detailed exploration of individual Bible books. It discusses a number of controversial views, including whether the Judeo-Christian tradition has contributed to the environmental crisis, and how the Bible is used by climate change deniers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hilary Marlow is Vice-Mistress, Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies at Girton College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, where she teaches Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew. She is the author of Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics (OUP, 2009) and numerous articles. Her research focuses on the intersection between the Hebrew Bible and contemporary environmental issues, including eco-critical and new materialist readings. Mark Harris is Professor of Natural Science and Theology at the University of Edinburgh. As a physicist working in a theological environment, he is interested in the complex ways that science and religion relate to each other. His research interests include the relationship between the physical sciences (especially physics) and theology and the impact of science on modern views of the Bible, especially in thinking on miracles and divine action.
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* Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * List of Contributors * Section 1: Issues and Methods * Introduction, Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris * 1. The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis, Jeremy H. Kidwell * 2. Ecological Hermeneutics. Origins, Approaches, and Prospects, David G. Horrell * 3. Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, Anne Elvey * 4. Ecological Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, Madipoane Masenya [Ngwan'a Mphahlele] * 5. Literary Ecocriticism and the Bible, Timothy J. Burbery * Section 2: Specific Biblical Texts * 6. Genesis, Ted Hiebert * 7. Leviticus, Deborah Rooke * 8. Deuteronomy, Raymond F. Person, Jr. * 9. Reading From the Ground Up. Nature in the Book of Isaiah, Hilary Marlow * 10. Re-viewing the Book of Jeremiah. An Ecological Perspective, Emily Colgan * 11. God's Good Land. The Agrarian Perspective of the Book of the Twelve, Laurie J. Braaten * 12. "Deep Calls to Deep". Ecology of Praise in the Psalms, William P. Brown * 13. The Book of Job, Kathryn Schifferdecker * 14. The Ecotheology of the Song of Songs, Ellen Bernstein * 15. Synoptic Gospels, Mark Harris * 16. John's Gospel, Susan Miller * 17. Pauline Epistles. Paul's Vision of Cosmic Liberation and Renewal, V.S. Balabanski * 18. Revelation, Micah D. Kiel * Section 3: Thematic Studies * 19. Attitudes to Nature in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Ronald A. Simkins * 20. The Image of God in Ecological Perspective, J. Richard Middleton * 21. Ecology and Eschatology in the Second Temple Period, Christopher Rowland * 22. Stewardship. A Biblical Concept?, Mark Daniel Liederbach * 23. The Sea and Ecology, Rebecca S. Watson * 24. City as Sustainable Environment, Mary E. Mills * Section 4: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives * 25. The Bible and Ecotheology. A Jewish Perspective, Julia Watts Belser * 26. The Bible and Wildlife Conservation, Dave Bookless * 27. The Bible and Environmental Ethics, Celia Deane-Drummond * 28. The Bible and Animal Theology, David L. Clough * 29. Creation Care and the Bible. An Evangelical Perspective, Daniel L. Brunner and A.J. Swoboda * 30. Climate Scepticism, Politics and the Bible, Benjamin S. Lowe, Rachel L. Lamb, and Noah J. Toly
* Acknowledgments * List of Abbreviations * List of Contributors * Section 1: Issues and Methods * Introduction, Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris * 1. The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis, Jeremy H. Kidwell * 2. Ecological Hermeneutics. Origins, Approaches, and Prospects, David G. Horrell * 3. Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, Anne Elvey * 4. Ecological Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, Madipoane Masenya [Ngwan'a Mphahlele] * 5. Literary Ecocriticism and the Bible, Timothy J. Burbery * Section 2: Specific Biblical Texts * 6. Genesis, Ted Hiebert * 7. Leviticus, Deborah Rooke * 8. Deuteronomy, Raymond F. Person, Jr. * 9. Reading From the Ground Up. Nature in the Book of Isaiah, Hilary Marlow * 10. Re-viewing the Book of Jeremiah. An Ecological Perspective, Emily Colgan * 11. God's Good Land. The Agrarian Perspective of the Book of the Twelve, Laurie J. Braaten * 12. "Deep Calls to Deep". Ecology of Praise in the Psalms, William P. Brown * 13. The Book of Job, Kathryn Schifferdecker * 14. The Ecotheology of the Song of Songs, Ellen Bernstein * 15. Synoptic Gospels, Mark Harris * 16. John's Gospel, Susan Miller * 17. Pauline Epistles. Paul's Vision of Cosmic Liberation and Renewal, V.S. Balabanski * 18. Revelation, Micah D. Kiel * Section 3: Thematic Studies * 19. Attitudes to Nature in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Ronald A. Simkins * 20. The Image of God in Ecological Perspective, J. Richard Middleton * 21. Ecology and Eschatology in the Second Temple Period, Christopher Rowland * 22. Stewardship. A Biblical Concept?, Mark Daniel Liederbach * 23. The Sea and Ecology, Rebecca S. Watson * 24. City as Sustainable Environment, Mary E. Mills * Section 4: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives * 25. The Bible and Ecotheology. A Jewish Perspective, Julia Watts Belser * 26. The Bible and Wildlife Conservation, Dave Bookless * 27. The Bible and Environmental Ethics, Celia Deane-Drummond * 28. The Bible and Animal Theology, David L. Clough * 29. Creation Care and the Bible. An Evangelical Perspective, Daniel L. Brunner and A.J. Swoboda * 30. Climate Scepticism, Politics and the Bible, Benjamin S. Lowe, Rachel L. Lamb, and Noah J. Toly
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