The mountains shall drip wine : Jews and the environment / [edited by] Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)

Series:

Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 20.

Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Environmentalism.

Nature--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Nature.

Nature--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Environmentalism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Human ecology--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Omaha, Neb. : Creighton University Press, [2009]

Contents:

The trembling of the earth: Jewish descriptions of earthquakes in the early modern world / Dean Phillip Bell

Creation theology isn't creationism and why this is good news for the Jews / Ellen Bernstein

Kabbalah, food, and sustainabiltiy / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus

Ideology and changing attitudes toward the environment in two Israeli films: Sallah Shabbati and James' journey to Jerusalem / Phillip Hollander

Reconnecting with nature to sustain ourselves / Barbara Lerman-Golomb

Toward a theology of beauty: hiddur mitzvah as an eco-theological imperative / Sandra B. Lubarsky

Natural thinking: Judaism, modes of thought and the environment / Natan Margalit

From the desert to the sown: Israel's encounter with the land of Canaan / Gary A. Rendsburg

Green Judaism and the design of communities: a practitioner's view / Martin H. Shukert

Classical rabbinic steps toward a theology of environmental Torah / Jonah Chanan Steinberg

What's Jewish about Jewish environmentalism / Alon Tal

The promise of creation: a Jewish environmental theology of redemption / Jonah Chanan Steinberg.

Notes:

"Proceedings of the Twentieth annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 28-29, 2007".

ISBN:

1881871592

9781881871590

OCLC:

435800959