Exploring ecological hermeneutics (Society of Biblical Literature, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and indexes
Introducing ecological hermeneutics / Norman C. Habel -- Air, the first sacred thing: the conception of "ruach" [transliterated] in the Hebrew scriptures / Theodore Hiebert -- Animal speech as revelation in Genesis 3 and Numbers 22 / Cameron B.R. Howard -- Earth tells the lessons of Cain / Kristin M. Swenson -- How lonely sits the city: reading lamentations as city and land / Peter Trudinger -- "Therefore the earth mourns": the grievance of earth in Hosea 4:1-3 / Melissa Tubbs Loya -- Earth community in Joel: a call to identify with the rest of creation / Laurie J. Braaten -- The other prophet!: the voice of earth in the book of Amos / Hilary Marlow -- The role of nonhuman characters in Jonah / Raymond F. Person Jr. -- Honey from the rock: the contribution of God as rock to an ecological hermeneutic / Arthur Walker-Jones -- An earthling's lament: hell on earth / Alice M. Sinnott -- The spirit of wisdom in all things: the mutuality of earth and humankind / Marie Turner -- The descent of darkness over the land: listening to the voice of earth in Mark 15:33 / Susan Miller -- Healing ointment, healing bodies: gift and identification in an ecofeminist reading of Mark 14.3-9 / Elaine Wainwright -- Creation groaning in labor pains / Sigve Tonstad -- Critiquing anthropocentric cosmology: retrieving a Stoice "permeation cosmology" in Colossians 1:15-20 / Vicky Balabanski
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 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. --From publisher's description