Exploring Ecological HermeneuticsNorman C. Habel, Peter L. Trudinger What has hermeneutics to do with ecology? What texts, if any, come to mind when you consider what the scriptures might say about environmental ethics? To help readers think critically and clearly about the Bible's relation to modern environmental issues, this volume expands the horizons of biblical interpretation to introduce ecological hermeneutics, moving beyond a simple discussion about Earth and its constituents as topics to a reading of the text from the perspective of Earth. In these groundbreaking essays, sixteen scholars seek ways to identify with Earth as they read and retrieve the role or voice of Earth, a voice previously unnoticed or suppressed within the biblical text and its interpretation. This study enriches eco-theology with eco-exegesis, a radical and timely dialogue between ecology and hermeneutics. The contributors are Vicky Balabanski, Laurie Braaten, Norman Habel, Theodore Hiebert, Cameron Howard, Melissa Tubbs Loya, Hilary Marlow, Susan Miller, Raymond Person, A |
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The Conception of xwr in the Hebrew Scriptures | 9 |
Animal Speech as Revelation in Genesis 3 and Numbers 22 | 21 |
Earth Tells the Lessons of Cain | 31 |
Reading Lamentations as City and Land | 41 |
The Grievance of Earth in Hosea 413 | 53 |
A Call to Identify with the Rest of Creation | 63 |
The Voice of Earth in the Book of Amos | 75 |
Hell on Earth | 103 |
The Mutuality of Earth and Humankind | 113 |
Listening to the Voice of Earth in Mark 1533 | 123 |
Gift and Identification in an Ecofeminist Reading of Mark 1439 | 131 |
Creation Groaning in Labor Pains | 141 |
Retrieving a Stoic Permeation Cosmology in Colossians 11520 | 151 |
Bibliography | 161 |
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The Role of Nonhuman Characters in Jonah | 85 |
The Contribution of God as Rock to an Ecological Hermeneutic | 91 |
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