Judaism and Environmental Ethics A Reader

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?

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

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