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Animal Agency, Ecology and the Bible book cover

1st Edition

Animal Agency, Ecology and the Bible

Edited By Sébastien Doane, Dong Hyeon Jeong Copyright 2027
272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

By considering multiple nonhuman or more-than-human perspectives, this book stimulates imaginative, non-anthropocentric ways of narrating the world, moving beyond traditional biblical narratives and interpretations centered on human protagonists. Recent biblical scholarship influenced by animal studies understand nonhuman animals of biblical texts as living agents/actants with their own storied... Read more

List of Contributors

Encountering Biblical, More-Than-Human, Agencies: An Introduction - Sébastien Doane and Dong Hyeon Jeong

Part I: Theory

1. Braying: Towards an Ecological Feminist New Materialist Perspective on Animal Agency in Biblical Interpretation - Anne Elvey

2. Not Every Thing Is an Agent: The Potentials and Perils of New Materialist Ontology for Understanding Nonhuman Agency in Biblical Texts - Suzanna Millar

3. Indigenous De-Linking: Using Fāgogo as a Decolonial Lens for Reading the Bible - Brian Fiu Kolia

4. “Therefore the Land Mourns”: Waters and Their Personhood in Prophetic Imagery -  Mary Dance Berry

Part II: Hebrew Bible

5. But What Are The Dragons Doing? The Agency of Sea Monsters in Gen 1:20-28 and Beyond - Michael J. Rhodes

6. Zoosemiotics and the Analysis of Genesis - Naama Weiss

7. The Lion and the Land: Double Agency in the Ecological Mourning Ritual of Amos 1:2 - Alexander Coe Stewart

8. “Do not be afraid arable land, jubilate and rejoice” (Joel 2:21). Hope Through More-Than-Human Agency - Dorothea Erbele-Küster

9. Green Voices of Prophecy: The Enigma of a Disobedient Prophet among a Subservient Nature and Humanity - Joby Joy

Part III: New Testament and Beyond

10. Animals as Allies to Jesus: Matthew’s Gospel - Christine Trotter

11. The Immortal Asbestos Maggot - J. Andrew Doole

12. “Living Creatures Give Glory, Honor and Thanks”: Animal Worship in Revelation 4–5 - Sébastien Doane

13. Animality, Femininity, and the Divine in the Acts of Thecla - Kristi Lee

Animal Agency Ecology and the Bible: A response - Arthur Walker-Jones

Index

Biography

Sébastien Doane is Associate Professor of biblical interpretation at Université Laval, Canada. He is series editor for the Bible and Ecology series at Routledge and the Biblical Interpretation series at Brill. He is the author of Reading the Bible amid the Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics.

Dong Hyeon Jeong is Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Director of the Center for Asian/Asian American Ministry at Garrett Seminary, USA. He is the author of Embracing the Nonhuman in the Gospel of Mark.

"This innovative volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the important and growing subfield at the intersection of Biblical Studies and Animal Studies. A wide range of compelling chapters press new questions of methodology and content, with the potential to transform readings of non-human animals in the Bible, and raise challenging questions for the human exploitation of other animals." - David L. Clough, University of Aberdeen

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