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Agriculture is related to such environmental limitations as the topographic, climatic, and edaphic features. To understand farming in ancient Israel, it is necessary to recognize the combination of these factors as they favored or limited crop production.
Ellen Davis, an identified urbanite, writes about the agricultural viewpoint of the Hebrew Bible. She cultivates a conversation between the ancient Hebrew text and modern agrarian writers. “Agrarianism is a way of thinking and ordering life in community that is based on the health of the land and of living creatures” (p. 1). With the subtitle of “an agrarian reading of the Bible,” one ...
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This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers’ pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography, social structures, and ...
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Dec 15, 2011 · While dealing with the question of the identification of biblical plants, this work presents some of the factors related to agriculture (e.g., topography, climate, vegetal landscape). Plants of the Bible are presented by categories such as fruit trees, field crops and garden plants, and wild herbs.
Feb 21, 2011 · The foreword to the book is written by farmer and agrarian writer Wendell Berry, whose own work is utilized throughout much of the book. Davis defines agrarianism with these words: Agrarianism is more than a set of farming practices, more than an attitude toward food production and consumption, although both of these are central to it.
AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS 1. Growing of Grain (1) Plowing and Sowing (2) Reaping (3) Threshing 2. Care of Vineyards 3. Raising of Flocks I. Development of Agriculture. One may witness in Syria and Palestine today the various stages of social progress through which the people of Bible times passed in which the development of their agriculture played ...
Christine Mitchell, St. Andrew’s College. This book by Ellen Davis, Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School, invites exegetes and students to look at the Bible (primarily the Hebrew Bible) in a new way. It is also a deeply political book, in the best sense of politikos – it concerns “living in a community” (LSJ ...
