Judaism and Ecology

nature of the environmental discourse and Jewish religious commitments.

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

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