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Scripture, culture, and agriculture : an Agrarian reading of the Bible / Ellen F. Davis ; foreword by Wendell Berry.

By: Davis, Ellen F.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: xvii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521732239 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Agricultural conservation -- Biblical teaching | Land use -- Biblical teachingOnline resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
Rupture and re-membering -- Reading the Bible through agrarian eyes -- Seeing with God : Israel's poem of creation -- Leaving Egypt behind : embracing the wilderness economy -- A wholesome materiality : reading Leviticus -- Covenantal economics : the biblical case for a local economy -- Running on poetry : the agrarian prophets -- Wisdom or sloth? : the character of work -- The faithful city.
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BS680.L25 .D38 2009 (Browse shelf) Available 001035578

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-221) and indexes.

Rupture and re-membering -- Reading the Bible through agrarian eyes -- Seeing with God : Israel's poem of creation -- Leaving Egypt behind : embracing the wilderness economy -- A wholesome materiality : reading Leviticus -- Covenantal economics : the biblical case for a local economy -- Running on poetry : the agrarian prophets -- Wisdom or sloth? : the character of work -- The faithful city.

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