ISBN:
9781107081338
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 397 S.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2015
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Seidenberg, David Mevorach, 1963 - Kabbalah and ecology
DDC:
296.3
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
God (Judaism)
;
Human ecology Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Image of God
;
Rabbinical literature History and criticism
;
Cabala
;
Bible
;
God (Judaism)
;
Old Testament
;
Human ecology
;
Image of God
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Religious aspects
;
Rabbinical literature
;
Cabala
;
Judaism
;
History and criticism
;
Kabbala
;
Umweltschutz
;
Ökologie
Abstract:
"Kabbalah and Ecology is a groundbreaking book that resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions. David Mevorach Seidenberg challenges the anthropocentric reading of the Torah, showing that a radically different orientation to the more-than-human world of nature is not only possible but such an orientation also leads to a more accurate interpretation of scripture, rabbinic texts, Maimonides, and Kabbalah. Deeply grounded in traditional texts and fluent with the physical sciences, this book proposes not only a new understanding of God's image but also a new direction for restoring religion to its senses and to a more alive relationship with the more-than-human, with nature, and with divinity"--
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Tselem Elohim in Midrash and Parshanut, part 12. Tselem Elohim in Midrash and Parshanut, part 2 -- 3. Tselem, dignity, and the 'infinite value' of the other -- 4. The soul and the others -- 5. Ethics and animals -- 6. Tselem in Kabbalah -- 7. Tselem in the more-than-human world -- 8. Of rocks, names, and codes -- 9. Adam Qadmon -- 10. Gaia, Adam Qadmon, and Maimonides -- 11. Qomah -- 12. Nigun, Shirah, and the problem of language -- 13. Further theological reflections.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-369) and indexes
