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How Green Is Judaism? Exploring Jewish Environmental Ethics.

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought  |  Date: 1/1/2001  |  Author: VOGEL, DAVID

ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT JEWISH issue: it links the Jewish tradition of ethical analysis to a significant contemporary problem. [1] Jewish tradition makes a distinctive and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary environmental ethics and the complex relationship of human beings and nature. While the Bible, which extends over seven or eight centuries, as well as post-biblical exegesis, contains not one normative view of nature but a variety of ...

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