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Seidenberg, David Ross Mevorach.

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Crossing the threshold. God's image in the more-than-human world: "Deep" eco-theology drawn from midrashic and kabbalistic sources.

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Title/Author:	Crossing the threshold. God's image in the more-than-human world: "Deep" eco-theology drawn from midrashic and kabbalistic sources./
Author:	Seidenberg, David Ross Mevorach.
Description:	384 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Neil Gillman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	Business Administration, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3045881
ISBN:	0493598340

Crossing the threshold. God's image in the more-than-human world: "Deep" eco-theology drawn from midrashic and kabbalistic sources.
Seidenberg, David Ross Mevorach.

Crossing the threshold. God's image in the more-than-human world: "Deep" eco-theology drawn from midrashic and kabbalistic sources. - 384 p.

Adviser: Neil Gillman.

Thesis (D.H.L.)--The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2002.

This dissertation will examine precedents in midrash and Kabbalah for going beyond the strictly anthropocentric understanding that characterizes the Abrahamic traditions. The premise that only human beings are created in God's image will be questioned from the perspective of ecology and theology. <underline>Avot deRabi Natan</underline> and <underline>Genesis Rabbah</underline> will provide primary evidence for rabbinic anthropology, allowing one to trace the evolution of later notions of <italic>imitatio dei </italic>, <italic>`olam qatan</italic> or microcosm, and soul, and to critique modernist prejudices among theologians and scholars such as Greenberg, Visotzky and Fishbane. Chapters on Kabbalah will some of the analogues for tselem that are used in Zoharic literature to extend the divine image to aspects of the created world. The midrashic notion that the human unites heaven and earth through being in the tselem of the “upper ones” or heavens will be compared with the ideas that evolved in Kabbalah, especially in Yosef Ashkenazi, and Isaiah Horowitz, in which the tselem within the human is comprised of the image of all beings and levels of creation. Shneur Zalman of Liady, Nachman of Breslov, and the work <underline>P'ri `Ets Hadar</underline> will provide precedents for integration of the “lower ones” into an ecologically meaningful paradigm of redemption. These precedents, along with ideas about language and redemption found in Franz Rosenzweig, will be used to construct a theological “lens” that will allow us from within the Jewish tradition to reconceptualize the meaning of the image of God and the sacredness of human life by extending the idea of God's image beyond humanity to embrace other creatures. Comparison of kabbalistic ideas with modern interpretations of “Gaia” and theologies of evolution, as well as examination of the use of Kabbalah in the work of Arthur Green and Arthur Waskow, will lead to reflections on the interpretation of ancient theology and the process of grounding new theology in accepted textual traditions. Analysis of the hermeneutics that validate constructive theology in a Jewish context will conclude the dissertation. This dissertation will include examination of scholarship by Wolfson, Boyarin, Neusner and others through footnotes and in an extensive methodological appendix.

ISBN: 0493598340Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017457
Business Administration, General.

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