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Judaism and Ecology Bibliography
Bibliography by: Mark Jacobs, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Annotations by: The Forum on Religion and
Ecology
Adler, Esther.
―Trees in the Bible.
‖ Pamphlet.
New York: Jewish National...
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Photo: Getty Images
Judaism and Ecology Bibliography
Bibliography by: Mark Jacobs, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life Annotations by: The Forum on Religion and
Ecology
Adler, Esther.
―Trees in the Bible.
‖ Pamphlet.
New York: Jewish National Fund, Dept.
of Education, 1990.
Allen, E.
L.
―The Hebrew View of Nature.
‖ The Journal of Jewish Studies 2, no.
1 (1951): 100–104.
Allen argues that nature is not seen in abstraction from God, nor are the tasks given to humans from God, but rather, humans share their
own origin with nature.
In the Jewish experience of exile, Allen demonstrates the close connection between the Jewish people and land,
thereby emphasizing that there is no neutral background to the history of the Jewish people, but rather that it has always been imbued with
God.
In describing the Hebrew view of nature, Allen explains that the land can suffer for people‘s sins and that the land has a right to a
period of rest.
With regard to animals, he outlines two
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