Reading the Hebrew Bible With Animal Studies - Couverture souple

Stone, Ken

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 150360375X ISBN 13 : 9781503603752

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies for the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The field has had relatively little impact on biblical interpretation to date, but combined with biblical scholarship, it sheds useful light on animals, animal symbolism, and the relations among animals, humans, and God-not only for those who study biblical literature and its ancient context, but for contemporary readers concerned with environmental, social, and animal ethics.

Without the presence of domesticated and wild animals, neither biblical traditions nor the religions that make use of the Bible would exist in their current forms. Although parts of the Bible draw a clear line between humans and animals, other passages complicate that line in multiple ways and challenge our assumptions about the roles animals play therein. Engaging influential thinkers, including Jacques Derrida, Donna Haraway, and other experts in animal and ecological studies, Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies shows how prehumanist texts reveal unexpectedly relevant dynamics and themes for our posthumanist age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ken Stone is Professor of Bible, Culture, and Hermeneutics at the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150360375X
• ISBN 13: 9781503603752
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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