Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word
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Description
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.Product Details
Price
$39.00
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publish Date
February 28, 2003
Pages
515
Dimensions
5.78 X 8.76 X 1.21 inches | 1.56 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780945454366
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About the Author
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Arizona State University.
Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard is Director of Organizational Development and Member of the Faculty at the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership.
Eliezer Diamond is Rabbi Judah A. Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Evan Eisenberg's essays and satire have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Time, Esquire, and the New York Times. He is the author of The Ecology of Eden, called by the Washington Post "a prose epic [of] dazzling wit and impressive learning,"and The Recording Angel, selected as one of the 50 greatest music books ever by the Observer.
Michael Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and holder of a Lifetime Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in America.
Stephen A. Geller is Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Jerome Gellman is Professor of Philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheba, Israel.
Neil Gillman is Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. A graduate of Harvard and a former Marshall Scholar, Goodman earned his doctorate at Oxford and is a past winner of the Baumgardt Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the Gratz Centennial Prize, for his book 'God of Abraham'. He has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, Australia, and Israel. Among his other books are 'Judaism, Human Rights and Human Values', 'Avicenna', 'Islamic Humanism', and 'Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Crosspollinations in the Classic Age'.
Arthur Green is Philip W. Lown Professor of Jewish Thought at Brandeis University.
Mark X. Jacobs is Executive Director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
Edward K. Kaplan is Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Research Associate of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and Chair of the Program on Religious Studies at Brandeis University.
Barry S. Kogan is Clarence and Robert Efroymson Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Religious Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Jon D. Levenson is Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School.
Shaul Magid is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
David Novak is cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, one of the world's largest restaurant companies, with over 1.5 million team members working in more than 135 countries. He is also the founder of a leadership-development organization and platform, David Novak Leadership, and the host of the top-ranked podcast How Leaders Lead. Novak is also the author of four leadership and personal-development books, including the New York Times bestseller Taking People with You.
Shalom Rosenberg is Professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Elion Schwartz is Director of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership.
Moshe Sokol is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Touro College.
Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
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