The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11

ISBN-13: 9781032446882 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Natan Levy

Opis

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world’s first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.

Recenzje

"Levy combines scholarship in several disciplines, close reading of one of the world’s most influential texts, and a hermeneutical wisdom that brilliantly illuminates the relevance of that text to the twenty-first century. The result is both convincing and original—not least in the illumination given by ancient history, archaeology, and  rabbinic midrashic interpretation. This is Genesis for our time, relating not only to challenges such as environmental emergency, global inequality, mass migration, and widespread state coercion, but also to the need for deep spiritual and ethical resources in responding to them." - David F. Ford OBE, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Cambridge

Spis treści

1. Subversive Scripture; 2. Paradise Lost; 3. Acquiring Man; 4. A Tale of Two Wives and a City; 5. Noah the Ploughman; 6. The Flooded State; 7. A Slave to Your Brothers; 8. King of the Four Corners of the Universe; Conclusion.

O autorze

Dr. Natan Levy is a Lecturer at Leo Baeck College in the United Kingdom and Head of Operations at Faiths Forum for London. He received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbi Brovender and Rabbi Riskin, his doctorate in Environmental Theology from Bristol University, and an MA in Jewish Studies from King’s College, London. Rabbi Levy was the environmental liaison to the former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, Lord Sacks. Rabbi Levy is the co-author of Sharing Eden: Green Teachings from Jews, Christians and Muslims.