Title: Scripture, culture, and agriculture : an agrarian reading of the Bible /
Authors: Davis, Ellen F.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Land use Biblical teaching.; Agricultural conservation Biblical teaching.
Contents: Rupture and re-membering -- Reading the Bible through agrarian eyes -- Seeing with God : Israel's poem of creation -- Leaving Egypt behind : embracing the wilderness economy -- A wholesome materiality : reading Leviticus -- Covenantal economics : the biblical case for a local economy -- Running on poetry : the agrarian prophets -- Wisdom or sloth? the character of work -- The faithful city.