Judaism and Environmental Ethics A Reader

by Yaffe, Martin D.; Allen, E L.; Artson, Rabbi Bradley Shavit; Benstein, Jeremy; Bentley, Philip J.; Bleich, J David; Blidstein, Gerald; Cohen, Jeremy; Ehrenfeld, David; Ehrenfeld, Joan G.; Jonas, Hans; Kass, Leon R.; Katz, Eric; Kay, Jeanne; Leopold, Aldo;

• ISBN13: 9780739101179
• ISBN10: 073910117X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780585383651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-06
• Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental crisis? Do ecology, Judaism, and philosophy work together, or are they at odds with each other in confronting the current crisis?

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(72)
Part I: The Historical Question
On Classical Judaism and Environmental Crisis	73	(7)
Jeremy Coben
The Hebrew View of Nature	80	(6)
E. L. Allen
Concepts of Nature in the Hebrew Bible	86	(19)
Jeanne Kay
The Forestry of the Prophets	105	(7)
Aldo Leopold
The Agricultural and Ecological Symbolism of the Four Species of Sukkot	112	(13)
Arthur Schaffer
Judaism and the Practice of Stewardship	125	(11)
David Ehrenfeld
Philip J. Bentley
Man and Nature in the Sabbatical Year	136	(7)
Gerald Blidstein
Commentary on the Book of Genesis, Chapter 1	143	(18)
Robert D. Sacks
Part II: The Ethical Question
Our Covenant with Stones: A Jewish Ecology of Earth	161	(11)
Bradley Shavit Artson
Created in the Image of God: Humanity and Divinity in an Age of Environmentalism	172	(11)
Lawrence Troster
Is Gaia Jewish? Finding a Framework for Radical Ecology in Traditional Judaism	183	(23)
Eric Rosenblum
``One, Walking and Studying...'': Nature vs. Torah	206	(24)
Jeremy Benstein
Bal Tashchit: A Jewish Environmental Precept	230	(20)
Eilon Schwartz
Contemporary Problems in Ethics from a Jewish Perspective	250	(17)
Hans Jonas
Part III: The Philosophical Question
The Unnatural Jew	267	(16)
Steven S. Schwarzschild
Some Thoughts on Nature and Judaism	283	(3)
David Ehrenfeld
Joan G. Ehrenfeld
Comments on the Unnatural Jew	286	(3)
Jeanne Kay
Judaism and the Sanctification of Nature	289	(8)
Michael Wyschogrod
Judaism and Nature: Theological and Moral Issues to Consider While Renegotiating a Jewish Relationship to the Natural World	297	(12)
Eilon Schwartz
Nature's Healing Power, the Holocaust, and the Environmental Crisis	309	(12)
Eric Katz
Ethical Issues of Animal Welfare in Jewish Thought	321	(12)
Ze'ev Levy
Judaism and Animal Experimentation	333	(38)
J. David Bleich
Vegetarianism and Judaism	371	(13)
J. David Bleich
Sanctified Eating	384	(26)
Leon R. Kass
Bibliography	410	(5)
Index	415	(5)
About the Contributors	420