Respect for animal life in the book of Leviticus. How green were the priestly authors?

dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Esias E.
dc.contributor.emailsias.meyer@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-30T06:45:07Z
dc.date.available2011-05-30T06:45:07Z
dc.date.issued2011-01
dc.description.abstractThe article with Leviticus 11 and with some of the ways in which it has been used in the ecotheological . Leviticus 11 is part of the Priestly text and Priestly theology has mostly been criticised for its legalism and ritualism as well as for its stifling of spontaneity. Recently our understanding of the priestly worldview has vastly improved and scholars tend to show more appreciation of the priestly cosmology, where Israel finds its place amongst other nations, but where there is also a place for animals in relation to humanity. The well-known Torah scholar Jacob Milgrom has insisted for more than forty years that there is an ethical system of “reverence for life” behind these laws. And the anthropologist Mary Douglas has argued that a respect for animal life is part and parcel of the priestly world-view and is clearly expressed in the priestly sacrificial system. This article attempts to critically engage with these two contributions to biblical scholarship.en
dc.identifier.citationMeyer, EE 2011, 'Respect for animal life in the book of Leviticus. How green were the priestly authors?', Old Testament Essays, vol. 24, no.1, pp. 142-158. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_oldtest.html]en
dc.identifier.issn1010-9919
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/16659
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOld Testament Society of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsOld Testament Society of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectLeviticus 11en
dc.subjectPriestly texten
dc.subjectPriestly theologyen
dc.subjectLegalismen
dc.subject.lcshBible -- O.T. -- Leviticus XI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en
dc.subject.lcshEcotheologyen
dc.subject.lcshHuman-animal relationships -- Religious aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshPriests, Jewish -- Attitudesen
dc.subject.lcshRitualismen
dc.titleRespect for animal life in the book of Leviticus. How green were the priestly authors?en
dc.typeArticleen

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