Judaism and Environmental Ethics A Reader

Name: Judaism and Environmental Ethics A Reader
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ISBN: 9780739101186

ISBN-10: 0739101188

ISBN-13: 9780739101186

Edition: 2001

Authors: Martin D. Yaffe, E. L. Allen, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Jeremy Benstein, Philip J. Bentley

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List price: $69.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 6/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.08" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Historical Question
On Classical Judaism and Environmental Crisis	p. 73
The Hebrew View of Nature	p. 80
Concepts of Nature in the Hebrew Bible	p. 86
The Forestry of the Prophets	p. 105
The Agricultural and Ecological Symbolism of the Four Species of Sukkot	p. 112
Judaism and the Practice of Stewardship	p. 125
Man and Nature in the Sabbatical Year	p. 136
Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1	p. 143
The Ethical Question
Our Covenant with Stones: A Jewish Ecology of Earth	p. 161
Created in the Image of God: Humanity and Divinity in an Age of Environmentalism	p. 172
Is Gaia Jewish? Finding a Framework for Radical Ecology in Traditional Judaism	p. 183
"One, Walking and Studying ...": Nature vs. Torah	p. 206
Bal Tashchit: A Jewish Environmental Precept	p. 230
Contemporary Problems in Ethics from a Jewish Perspective	p. 250
The Philosophical Question
The Unnatural Jew	p. 267
Some Thoughts on Nature and Judaism	p. 283
Comments on the Unnatural Jew	p. 286
Judaism and the Sanctification of Nature	p. 289
Judaism and Nature: Theological and Moral Issues to Consider While Renegotiating a Jewish Relationship to the Nature World	p. 297
Nature's Healing Power, the Holocaust, and the Environmental Crisis	p. 309
Ethical Issues of Animal Welfare in Jewish Thought	p. 321
Judaism and Animal Experimentation	p. 333
Vegetarianism and Judaism	p. 371
Sanctified Eating	p. 384
Bibliography	p. 410
Index	p. 415
About the Contributors	p. 420
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