1st Edition
The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas From Adam to Michael K
Preface by Dr. Helen Gavin
A Note on the Hebrew Bible
Introduction
1. The environment and the betrayal of the covenant
2. Nature and the biblical calendar: festivals and psalms
3.‘Promised lands’ and national poetry
4. Sacred landscapes in exile
5. Kadosh! Kadosh! Kadosh!
6. The Bible, charity and agricultural law
7. The piper at the gates of dawn: loss and Nature
8. ‘Man is the tree of the field’
9. Free will, divine Law and science
10. Energy and its abuse
11. Environmental disaster in the Bible
12. The apocalyptic beast let loose
13. Swords to ploughshares: the vision of universal peace
14. Humility: God’s reply to Job from the whirlwind - where were you?
15. Industry and the Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth and Goethe
16. The environment and ‘Condition of England’ novelists
17. Marx: the industrial environment as crime
18. Ibsen, Chekhov, and the moral environment
19. The rediscovery of Nature in Mendele, Bialik, and Tchernichowsky
20. The Waste Land: sin and suffering
21. Environmental abuse in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
22. Post-1945 literature: the quest for a lost Eden
Bibliography
Biography
David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Honorary Visiting Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, UK. His books include, Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (1989); Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media (1996); National Poetry, Empires and War (2016), and Nationalism, War and Jewish Education (2018).
