Judaism and Ecology

by Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava

• ISBN13: 9780945454366
• ISBN10: 0945454368
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Ctr for the

Summary

nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Lawrence E. Sullivan
Series Foreword	xv
Mary Evelyn Tucker
John Grim
Introduction. Judaism and the Natural World	xxxiii
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
I. Constructive Jewish Theology of Nature
A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age	3	(14)
Arthur Green
Toward a Jewish Theology of Nature	17	(10)
Michael Fishbane
II. The Human Condition: Origins, Pollution, and Death
The Ecology of Eden	27	(34)
Evan Eisenberg
How Much Is Too Much? Conventional versus Personal Definitions of Pollutions in Rabbinic Sources	61	(20)
Eliezer Diamond
Jewish Death Practices: A Commentary on the Relationship of Humans to the Natural World	81	(12)
David Kraemer
Response. Mastery and Stewardship, Wonder and Connectedness: A Typology of Relations to Nature in Jewish Text and Tradition	93	(16)
Eilon Schwartz
III. The Doctrine of Creation
Nature's Answer: The Meaning of the Book of Job in Its Intellectual Context	109	(24)
Stephen A. Geller
Creation in the Bible and in the Liturgy	133	(22)
Neil Gillman
The Doctrine of Creation and the Idea of Nature	155	(22)
David Novak
Response. Natural and Supernatural Justice	177	(12)
Jon D. Levenson
IV. Nature and Revealed Morality
Concepts of Torah and Nature in Jewish Thought	189	(38)
Shalom Rosenberg
Respect for Nature in the Jewish Tradition	227	(34)
Lenn E. Goodman
What Are the Ethical Implications of Jewish Theological Conceptions of the Natural World?	261	(22)
Moshe Sokol
Response. Construction, Discovery, and Critique in Jewish Ecological Ethics	283	(22)
Barry S. Kogan
V. Nature in Jewish Mysticism
Mirror of Nature Reflected in the Symbolism of Medieval Kabbalah	305	(28)
Elliot R. Wolfson
Nature, Exile, and Disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav's ``The Seven Beggars''	333	(36)
Shaul Magid
Early Hasidism and the Natural World	369	(20)
Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman
Response. The Textualization of Nature in Jewish Mysticism	389	(18)
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
VI. From Speculation to Action
Reverence and Responsibility: Abraham Joshua Heschel on Nature and the Self	407	(16)
Edward K. Kaplan
Can Judaism Make Environmental Policy? Sacred and Secular Language in Jewish Ecological Discourse	423	(26)
Tsvi Blanchard
Jewish Environmentalism: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges	449	(32)
Mark X. Jacobs
Select Bibliography	481	(6)
Notes on Contributors	487	(6)
Index	493