Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies by Ken Stone - 9780804799751

Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal StudiesAuthor(s): Ken Stone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804799751, 978-0804799751\nSynopsis\nAnimal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies for the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The field has had relatively little impact on biblical interpretation to date, but combined with biblical scholarship, it sheds useful light on animals, animal symbolism, and the relations among animals, humans, and Godnot only for those who study biblical literature and its ancient context, but for contemporary readers concerned with environmental, social, and animal ethics. \n\n Without the presence of domesticated and w.