Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies

by Ken Stone

Book Overview

Animal studies may be a recent academic development, but our fascination with animals is nothing new. Surviving cave paintings are of animal forms, and closer to us, as Ken Stone points out, animals populate biblical literature from beginning to end. This book explores the significance of animal studies for the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The field has had relatively little impact on biblical interpretation to date, but combined with biblical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360375X
• ISBN13: 9781503603752
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"