Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible

by Olyan, Saul M.

• ISBN13: 9780197609385
• ISBN10: 0197609384
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Saul M. Olyan is the Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author of nine books, including Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (2019) and Friendship in the Hebrew Bible (2017), and is the editor or co-editor of thirteen books. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and St. John's College, University of Cambridge, as well as a grant from the American Philosophical Society. In 2016, he was president of the New England and Eastern Canada region of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1, Four Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights

Chapter 2, Animals as Covenant Partners in Genesis 9:8-17 and Hosea 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)

Chapter 3, Animal Culpability and Its Ramifications for Legal Status

Chapter 4, Symmetry or Asymmetry According to the Law? The Case of Domesticated Animals and Human Beings

Chapter 5, Animal Welfare: The Evidence of Biblical Texts

Conclusion

Index