Judaism and ecology
Subtitle: created world and revealed word
By: edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson.
Contributors: Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
Subjects: Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Nature -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-486) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Judaism and the natural world / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; title: Part I : Constructive Jewish theology of nature; title: Kabbalah for the environmental age / Arthur Green ; Toward a Jewish theology of nature / Michael Fishbane; title: Part II : Human condition : origins, pollution, and death; title: 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; title: Part III : Doctrine of creation; title: 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; title: Part IV : Nature and revealed morality; title: 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; title: Part V : Nature in Jewish mysticism; title: 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; title: Part VI : From speculation to action; title: 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.