Kabbalah and ecology : God's image in the more-than-human world /
"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 onl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Jewish ecological thought and the challenge for scriptural theology
- Midrash. Tselem Elohim (God's image) in Midrash and commentary, part 1 : the angels and the heavens, the chain of being, intellect, and speech
- Tselem Elohim in Midrash and commentary, part 2 : the body, gender, dominion, and ethics
- Tselem, dignity, and the "infinite value" of the other
- The soul and the others : humans, animals, and other subjectivities
- Ethics and the others : moral fellowship with animals and beyond animals
- Intermediate conclusions : from Midrash to Kabbalah
- Kabbalah. Tselem Elohim in Kabbalah, part 1 : the Sefirot, the soul and body, the hypostases, and the heavens
- Tselem Elohim in Kabbalah, part 2 : the more-than-human world--holism and unifications, trees, birds, animals, and colors
- Of rocks, names, and codes : the letters of creation
- Adam Qadmon : the universe as God's image
- Gaia, Adam Qadmon, and Maimonides
- Qomah : the stature of all beings
- Intermediate conclusions : from Kabbalah to ecotheology
- Ecotheology. Nigun, Shirah, the singing of creation, and the problem of language
- Further theological reflections
- Conclusion : a new ethos, a new ethics
- Excursus 1 : nefesh and related terms
- Excursus 2 : the prayer of P'ri `Ets Hadar
- Appendix : the Sefirot, the tree of life, and a brief history of Kabbalah.