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THE LOST VOICES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL: RECLAIMING EDEN, AN ECO-CRITICAL EXEGESIS
| Title: | THE LOST VOICES OF ANCIENT ISRAEL: RECLAIMING EDEN, AN ECO-CRITICAL EXEGESIS. |
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| Name(s): |
Bacchus, Nazeer, Author Campbell, James, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This work addresses the historically-read despotism Genesis 1.28 has often received in its subordination of nature for the interests of human enterprise and counters the notion of reading the entire Bible as an anti-environmental, anthropocentric text. In using a combined literary lens of eco-criticism and new historicism, this work examines the Hebrew Bible with particular attention to the books of Genesis and Exodus, offering within the Torah's oldest literary tradition (the J source) an environmental connection between humanity and the divine that promotes a reverence of natural world and, conversely, a rejection of rampant urbanization and its cultural departure from nature. It is the goal of this research to create a discourse by bridging the gap between religious and green studies and forging a connection with the works of the early biblical writers and environmental thought of the modern world. | |
| Identifier: | CFH0004793 (IID), ucf:45337 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
2015-05-01 B.A. Arts and Humanities, Dept. of English Bachelors This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): |
eco-criticism new historicism deconstruction post-structuralism hebrew bible old testament nature environment urbanization imperialism j source yahwist cultural mandate dominion biblical criticism anthropocentric pastoral |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004793 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2020-04-01 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
