The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Ecology

Hilary Marlow is Vice-Mistress, Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies at Girton College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, where she teaches Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew. She is the author of Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics (OUP, 2009) and numerous articles. Her research focuses on the intersection between the Hebrew Bible and contemporary environmental issues, including eco-critical and new materialist readings. Mark Harris is Professor of Natural Science and Theology at the University of Edinburgh. As a physicist working in a theological environment, he is interested in the complex ways that science and religion relate to each other. His research interests include the relationship between the physical sciences (especially physics) and theology and the impact of science on modern views of the Bible, especially in thinking on miracles and divine action.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Section 1: Issues and Methods

Introduction, Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris
1. The Historical Roots of the Ecological Crisis, Jeremy H. Kidwell
2. Ecological Hermeneutics. Origins, Approaches, and Prospects, David G. Horrell
3. Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, Anne Elvey
4. Ecological Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism, Madipoane Masenya [Ngwan'a Mphahlele]
5. Literary Ecocriticism and the Bible, Timothy J. Burbery

Section 2: Specific Biblical Texts

6. Genesis, Ted Hiebert
7. Leviticus, Deborah Rooke
8. Deuteronomy, Raymond F. Person, Jr.
9. Reading From the Ground Up. Nature in the Book of Isaiah, Hilary Marlow
10. Re-viewing the Book of Jeremiah. An Ecological Perspective, Emily Colgan
11. God's Good Land. The Agrarian Perspective of the Book of the Twelve, Laurie J. Braaten
12. "Deep Calls to Deep". Ecology of Praise in the Psalms, William P. Brown
13. The Book of Job, Kathryn Schifferdecker
14. The Ecotheology of the Song of Songs, Ellen Bernstein
15. Synoptic Gospels, Mark Harris
16. John's Gospel, Susan Miller
17. Pauline Epistles. Paul's Vision of Cosmic Liberation and Renewal, V.S. Balabanski
18. Revelation, Micah D. Kiel


Section 3: Thematic Studies

19. Attitudes to Nature in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Ronald A. Simkins
20. The Image of God in Ecological Perspective, J. Richard Middleton
21. Ecology and Eschatology in the Second Temple Period, Christopher Rowland
22. Stewardship. A Biblical Concept?, Mark Daniel Liederbach
23. The Sea and Ecology, Rebecca S. Watson
24. City as Sustainable Environment, Mary E. Mills


Section 4: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives

25. The Bible and Ecotheology. A Jewish Perspective, Julia Watts Belser
26. The Bible and Wildlife Conservation, Dave Bookless
27. The Bible and Environmental Ethics, Celia Deane-Drummond
28. The Bible and Animal Theology, David L. Clough
29. Creation Care and the Bible. An Evangelical Perspective, Daniel L. Brunner and A.J. Swoboda
30. Climate Scepticism, Politics and the Bible, Benjamin S. Lowe, Rachel L. Lamb, and Noah J. Toly