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Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is not new. The surviving cave paintings are animal forms, and closer, as Ken Stone points out,…

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Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is not new. The surviving cave paintings are animal forms, and closer, as Ken Stone points out, animals fill evangelical literature from beginning to end.

This book explores the importance of animal studies to the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The field has little impact on biblical interpretation yet, but with biblical scholarship, it sheds light on animals and animal symbolism and relations between animals, humans and God, not only for those who study evangelical literature but for contemporary readers interested in environmental, social and animal ethics. Without the existence of domesticated animals and brutality, there are no biblical traditions or religions that benefit from the Bible in its present forms.

Although parts of the Bible draw a clear line between humans and animals, other passages complicate that line in many ways and challenge our assumptions about the roles animals play in them. The involvement of influential thinkers, including Jack Derrida, Donna Haraway, and other animal and ecological experts, reads the Hebrew Bible with animal studies showing how the earlier texts of humanity reveal unexpected dynamics and subjects of the post-human era..



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