Laura Duhan-Kaplan

Mouth of the Donkey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Hebrew Bible is filled with animals. Snakes and ravens share meals with people; donkeys and sheep work alongside us; eagles and lions inspire us; locusts warn us. How should we read their stories? What can they teach us about ecology, spirituality, and ethics? Author Laura Duhan-Kaplan explores these questions, weaving together biology, Kabbalah, rabbinic midrash, Indigenous wisdom, modern literary methods, and personal experiences. She re-imagines Jacob's sheep as family, Balaam's donkey as a spiritual director, Eve's snake as a misguided helper. Finally, Rabbi Laura invites metaphorical eagles, locusts, and mother bears to help us see anew, confront human violence, and raise children who live peacefully on the land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781725259058
• ISBN-10: 1725259052
• Artikelnr.: 61939650

Autorenporträt

Laura Duhan-Kaplan is director of inter-religious studies and professor of Jewish studies at Vancouver School of Theology. She is author of Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals (2021). Anne-Marie Ellithorpe is research associate at Vancouver School of Theology and co-chair of the Religious Reflections on Friendship unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is author of Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship (2022). Harry O. Maier is professor of New Testament and early Christian studies at Vancouver School of Theology and research fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation after Christendom (2004).