TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeffrey S. Lamp
PY  - 2017
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433141546
TI  - Reading Green
T2  - Tactical Considerations for Reading the Bible Ecologically
DO  - 10.3726/b10930
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055327
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -