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Judaism and environmental ethics : a reader /

Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a timely exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Yaffe, Martin D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2001]
Subjects:
Human ecology > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Nature > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Environmental ethics.
Human ecology > Philosophy.
Écologie humaine > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
Éthique de l'environnement.
Écologie humaine > Philosophie.
Judentum
Umweltethik
Table of Contents:
  • On classical Judaism and environmental crisis / Jeremy Cohen
  • The Hebrew view of nature/ E.l. Allen
  • Concepts of nature in the Hebrew Bible / Jeanne Kay
  • The forestry of the prophets / Aldo Leopold
  • The agricultural and ecological symbolism of the four species of Sukkot / Arthur Scheffer
  • Judaism and the practice of stewardship / David Ehrenfeld and Philip J. Bently
  • Man and nature in the Sabbatical Year / Gerald Blidstein
  • Commentary on the book of Genesis, Chapter 1 / Robert D. Sacks
  • Our Covenant with stones : a Jewish ecology of earth / Bradley Shavit Artson
  • Created in the image of God : humanity and divinity in an age of enivronmentalis / Lawrence Troster
  • Is Gaia Jewish? finding a framework for radical ecology in traditional Judaism / Eric Roseblum
  • "One, walking and studying ..." : nature vs. Torah / Jeremy Benstein
  • Bal Tashchit : a Jewish Environmental precept / Eilon Schwartz
  • Contemporary problems in ethics from a Jewish perspective / Hans Jonas
  • The unnatural Jew / Steven S. Schwarzschild / Some thoughts on nature and Judaism / David Ehrenfeld and Joan G. Ehrenfeld
  • Comments on the unnatural Jew / Jeanne Kay
  • Judaism and the sanctification of nature/ Michael Wyschnogrod
  • Judaism and nature : theological and moral issues to consider while renegotiating a Jewish relationship to the natural world / Eilon Schwartz / Nature's healing power, the Holocaust, and the environmental crisis / Eric Katz
  • Ethical issues of animal welfare in Jewish thought / Ze'ev Levy
  • Judaism and animal experimentation / J. David Bleich
  • Vegetarianism and Judaism / J. David Bleich
  • Sanctified eating / Leon R. Kass.