Research Catalog

Title

The mountains shall drip wine : Jews and the environment / [edited by] Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Publication

Omaha, Neb. : Creighton University Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)

Description

198 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Jewish civilization ; v. 20

Subject

• Human ecology > Judaism > Congresses
• Environmentalism > Judaism > Congresses
• Nature > Judaism > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of the Twentieth annual Symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 28-29, 2007".

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The trembling of the earth: Jewish descriptions of earthquakes in the early modern world / Dean Phillip Bell -- Creation theology isn't creationism and why this is good news for the Jews / Ellen Bernstein -- Kabbalah, food, and sustainabiltiy / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus -- Ideology and changing attitudes toward the environment in two Israeli films: Sallah Shabbati and James' journey to Jerusalem / Phillip Hollander -- Reconnecting with nature to sustain ourselves / Barbara Lerman-Golomb -- Toward a theology of beauty: hiddur mitzvah as an eco-theological imperative / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Natural thinking: Judaism, modes of thought and the environment / Natan Margalit -- From the desert to the sown: Israel's encounter with the land of Canaan / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Green Judaism and the design of communities: a practitioner's view / Martin H. Shukert -- Classical rabbinic steps toward a theology of environmental Torah / Jonah Chanan Steinberg -- What's Jewish about Jewish environmentalism / Alon Tal -- The promise of creation: a Jewish environmental theology of redemption / Jonah Chanan Steinberg.

ISBN

• 1881871592 (pbk.)
• 9781881871590 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009035718

OCLC

• 435800959
• SCSB-10968443

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Harvard Library