Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible

Saul M. Olyan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760938-5 (ISBN)

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Does the Hebrew Bible ascribe an implicit form of legal personhood or legal rights to animals? If so, which animals--domesticated or wild, or both--receive which rights, and for what purpose? Scholars have been slow to consider these questions, and animal-oriented research as a whole, in the field of biblical studies. For the first time, author Saul M. Olyan addresses these questions in detail and explores how the evidence of the Hebrew Bible might contribute to contemporary debates about animal rights in the academy, in the courts, in the public square, and in religious communities.

In this book, Olyan demonstrates that seven different biblical texts extend both legal personhood and rights to animals. The rights conferred upon them are mainly specific and situational, and the legal personhood associated them is in most cases best characterized as limited. Nonetheless, he argues that the animal rights described by these texts are genuine because they are not contingent on the needs or demands of others, they do not disappear or give way because of conflict with the interests of another legal person, and they may not be violated with impunity. Finally, Olyan considers how the biblical texts examined in his analyses might be used to extend or strengthen the arguments of those advocating for animals in judicial, academic, political, or religious settings.

Saul M. Olyan is the Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author of nine books, including Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (2019) and Friendship in the Hebrew Bible (2017), and is the editor or co-editor of thirteen books. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and St. John's College, University of Cambridge, as well as a grant from the American Philosophical Society. In 2016, he was president of the New England and Eastern Canada region of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1, Four Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights

Chapter 2, Animals as Covenant Partners in Genesis 9:8-17 and Hosea 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)

Chapter 3, Animal Culpability and Its Ramifications for Legal Status

Chapter 4, Symmetry or Asymmetry According to the Law? The Case of Domesticated Animals and Human Beings

Chapter 5, Animal Welfare: The Evidence of Biblical Texts

Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 162 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-760938-4 / 0197609384
ISBN-13	978-0-19-760938-5 / 9780197609385
Zustand	Neuware