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Title:

Judaism and ecology : created world and revealed word / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.

Publisher:

Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World ReligionsHarvard Divinity School,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

lxii, 515 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Human ecology--Judaism.--Judaism.
Nature--Judaism.--Judaism.
Religious aspects
Judaism.

Other Authors:

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-486) and index.

Contents:

Jewish environmentalism : past accomplishments and future challenges / Mark X. Jacobs. Part VI. Constructive Jewish theology of nature -- Kabbalah for the environmental age / Arthur Green -- Toward a Jewish theology of nature / Michael Fishbane -- Part II. Human condition : origins, pollution, and death -- Ecology of Eden / Evan Eisenberg -- How much is too much? Conventional versus personal definitions of pollutions in Rabbinic sources / Eliezer Diamond -- Jewish death practices : a commentary on the relationship of humans to the natural world / David Kraemer -- Response. Mastery and stewardship, wonder and connectedness : a typology of relations to nature in Jewish text and tradition / Eilon Schwartz -- Part III. Doctrine of creation -- Nature's answer : the meaning of the Book of Job in its intellectual context / Stephen A. Geller -- Creation in the Bible and in the liturgy / Neil Gillman -- Doctrine of creation and the idea of nature / David Novak -- Response. Natural and supernatural justice / Jon D. Levenson -- Part IV. Nature and revealed morality -- Concepts of Torah and nature in Jewish thought / Shalom Rosenberg -- Respect for nature in the Jewish tradition / Lenn E. Goodman -- What are the ethical implications of Jewish theological conceptions of the natural world? / Moshe Sokol -- Response. Construction, discovery, and critique in Jewish ecological ethics / Barry S. Kogan -- Part V. Nature in Jewish mysticism -- Mirror of nature reflected in the symbolism of Medieval Kabbalah / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Nature, exile, and disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav's The seven beggars / Shaul Magid -- Early Hasidism and the natural world / Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman -- Response. The textualization of nature in Jewish mysticism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Part VI. From speculation to action -- Reverence and responsibility : Abraham Joshua Heschel on nature and self / Edward K. Kaplan -- Can Judaism make environmental policy? Sacred and secular language in Jewish ecological discourse / Tsvi Blanchard -- Jewish environmentalism : past accomplishments and future challenges / Mark X. Jacobs.

Series:

Religions of the world and ecology

ISBN:

9780945454342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0945454341 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780945454335 (alk. paper)
0945454333 (alk. paper)
9780945454366 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0945454368 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780945454359 (alk. paper)
094545435X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50518566
(OCoLC)51883054

LCCN:

2002031586

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)