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Reading Green

Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically

by Jeffrey S. Lamp (Author)
©2017 Monographs XII, 144 Pages
Series: Studies in Biblical Literature, Volume 168

Summary

Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the agendas of biblical authors as they penned their works. The true challenge in the field is engaging biblical texts that do not present a positive ecological message (e.g., the stories of the flood and the plagues), or that seem to focus their messages so narrowly on human subjects and their interests that they marginalize or ignore the concerns of the other-than-human creation. To address this issue, this book provides a series of reading strategies which begin with the current ecological crisis. Present areas of interest, such as environmental racism and justice, film criticism, and reception history and exegesis, are employed to construct various approaches to mine the Bible for its contribution in addressing the current ecological crisis.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • Editor’s Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Noah (2014) as Paradigm for Reading the Bible Ecologically
  • Chapter Two: Earth, the Poor, and the Bible: The Criteria of Ecological Hermeneutics Re-Visioned
  • Chapter Three: I Love to Tell the Story: The Narrative Subversion of the Bible’s Ecologically “Grey” Texts
  • Chapter Four: Just Who Is the Lorax? Cli-Fi, Reception Exegesis, and Reading the Bible Ecologically
  • Chapter Five: Creation as Judge: The Plagues, the Ecological Crisis, and the Book of Wisdom
  • Chapter Six: What When Jesus Isn’t Green? Addressing the Concern
  • Conclusion
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Series index

Jeffrey S. Lamp

Reading Green

Tactical Considerations for
Reading the Bible Ecologically

About the author

Jeffrey S. Lamp (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Professor at Oral Roberts University. He is the author of First Corinthians 1–4 in Light of Jewish Wisdom Traditions and The Greening of Hebrews?: Ecological Readings in the Letter to the Hebrews, co-editor of The Theological Vision of N. T. Wright: A Pentecostal Engagement, and a translator and editor for the Modern English Version of the Bible. He has presented numerous papers at academic conferences and has published several articles in journals, dictionaries, and volumes of collected essays. His current research interests include ecological hermeneutics and ecotheology.

About the book

Reading Green: Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically operates on the premise that the Bible itself does not directly address the current ecological crisis and that expecting it to do so is anachronistic, for there was no ecological crisis on the agendas of biblical authors as they penned their works. The true challenge in the field is engaging biblical texts that do not present a positive ecological message (e.g., the stories of the flood and the plagues), or that seem to focus their messages so narrowly on human subjects and their interests that they marginalize or ignore the concerns of the other-than-human creation. To address this issue, this book provides a series of reading strategies which begin with the current ecological crisis. Present areas of interest, such as environmental racism and justice, film criticism, and reception history and exegesis, are employed to construct various approaches to mine the Bible for its contribution in addressing the current ecological crisis.

“It was good. And it still is. Increasingly, the need to engage the sacred Scriptures through the experience of the contemporary ecological crisis continues to present itself like an unsolved puzzle. The lurking danger with all biblical studies is that we are unable (or unwilling) to read Scripture in light of what is actually going on in our world. We have become excellent at answering eighteenth-century questions. This book is a game-changer. Within, Jeffrey S. Lamp actually helps us deal with twenty-first-century issues with eternal and biblical voices that draw us to the eternal. This is a much-needed volume. I wish I had it years ago.”—A. J. Swoboda, Pastor, Professor, and Author of Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

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Editor’s Preface


More than ever the horizons in biblical literature are being expanded beyond that which is immediately imagined; important new methodological, theological, and hermeneutical directions are being explored, often resulting in significant contributions to the world of biblical scholarship. It is an exciting time for the academy as engagement in biblical studies continues to be heightened.

This series seeks to make available to scholars and institutions, scholarship of a high order, and which will make a significant contribution to the ongoing biblical discourse. This series includes established and innovative directions, covering general and particular areas in biblical study. For every volume considered for this series, we explore the question as to whether the study will push the horizons of biblical scholarship. The answer must be yes for inclusion.

Details

Pages
XII, 144
Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9781433141546
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433141553
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433141560
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433135347
DOI
10.3726/b10930
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (July)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2017. XII, 144 pp.

Biographical notes

Jeffrey S. Lamp (Author)

Jeffrey S. Lamp (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is Professor at Oral Roberts University. He is the author of First Corinthians 1–4 in Light of Jewish Wisdom Traditions and The Greening of Hebrews?: Ecological Readings in the Letter to the Hebrews, co-editor of The Theological Vision of N. T. Wright: A Pentecostal Engagement, and a translator and editor for the Modern English Version of the Bible. He has presented numerous papers at academic conferences and has published several articles in journals, dictionaries, and volumes of collected essays. His current research interests include ecological hermeneutics and ecotheology.

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