Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed WordHava Tirosh-Samuelson Jewish ecological discourse has shown that Judaism harbors deep concern for the well-being of the natural world. However, the movement has not articulated a Jewish theology of nature, nor has it submitted the sources of Judaism to a systematic, philosophical examination. This volume intends to contribute to the nascent discourse on Judaism and ecology by clarifying diverse conceptions of nature in Jewish thought and by using the insights of Judaism to formulate a constructive Jewish theology of nature. The twenty-one contributors consider the Bible and rabbinic literature, examine the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of revelation in the context of natural law, and wrestle with questions of nature and morality. They look at nature in the Jewish mystical tradition, and they face the challenges to Jewish environmental activism caused by the tension between the secular nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments. |
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Created World and Revealed Word Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. The Medieval World The Return to Nature The problematic relationship between nature and the Torah is pursued further in medieval Jewish philosophy . The Hasidic thinker Rabbi Zadok ...
... medieval Aristotelianism the concept of nature implied an addi- tional element . Medieval Aristotelians developed the idea that there exists a parallel between morality and the instinctive activities of ani- mals , and neither of these ...
... medieval kabbalists ( and their modern lineage ) to the feminine and the masculine ? I readily acknowledge a fair degree of fluidity , of crossing gender boundaries , but this movement occurs within a well- demarcated framework marked ...
Contents
Preface | xi |
Introduction Judaism and the Natural World | xxxiii |
Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature | xxxix |
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