Animal rights and the Hebrew Bible / Saul M. Olyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olyan, Saul M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in the Bible.

Animal rights--Biblical teaching.

Animal rights.

Animal rights--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Animal welfare--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Does the Hebrew Bible ascribe an implicit form of legal personhood or legal rights to animals? If so, which animals - domesticated or wild, or both - receive which rights, and for what purpose? Author Saul M. Olyan addresses these questions in detail and explores how the evidence of the Hebrew Bible might contribute to contemporary debates about animal rights in the academy, in the courts, in the public square, and in religious communities.

Contents:

Cover

Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Legal Personhood and the Legal Rights of Animals

Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

The Use of the Hebrew Bible in Animal Advocacy

The Hebrew Bible: Multiple Views, Multiple Voices

The Biblical Notion of Rights

The Shape of the Book

1. Four Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights

Exod 23:10-​11 and Exod 23:12

Lev 25:2-​7 and Deut 5:12-​15

Implicit Classification and the Creation of Common Classes

Conclusion

2. Animals as Covenant Partners in Genesis 9:8-​17 and Hosea 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)

The Grant-​like Covenants of Gen 9:8-​17 and Hos 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)

Legal Personhood and the Rights of Animals in Gen 9:8-​17 and Hos 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)

The Relationship of Gen 9:8-​17 and Gen 9:2-​3

3. Animal Culpability and Its Ramifications for Legal Status

Duties, Culpability, and Legal Personhood

Texts that Subject Animals to Sanctions for the Violations They Commit

Texts in which Animals Die or Suffer for the Offenses of Human Beings

4. Symmetry or Asymmetry According to the Law? The Case of Domesticated Animals and Human Beings

Lev 27:1-​13: Valuations for Vows

Lev 27:28-​29: Consignment to Eradication (ḥērem)

Exod 34:19-​20 and Exod 22:28b-​29 (Eng. 22:29b-​30): The Law of the Firstborn

Defects (mûmîm) in Priests and Sacrificial Animals

Axes of Inequality Among Human Beings and Among Animals

5. Animal Welfare: The Evidence of Biblical Texts

A Biblical Text Sharing Some Features in Common with a Contemporary Welfare Orientation

A Comparison of Prov 12:10 and Deut 25:4.

Other Texts that are Often Assumed to be Welfare-​Oriented: What Does the Evidence Suggest?

Additional Texts that are Sometimes Thought to have a Concern for Animal Well-​Being

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-760940-6

0-19-760939-2

0-19-760941-4