Persons, “impersonal” nature, and the Hebrew bible

26/10/2021 1h 6min Episodio 26
Persons, “impersonal” nature, and the Hebrew bible

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The bible speaks of the sky rejoicing, the earth being glad, and the trees clapping their hands. Mari Joerstad, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, thinks that the best way to understand these texts is that the sky, earth, and trees are presumed, in these texts, to be persons–other-than-human persons. And she offers this reading […]