Women, Wells, and Springs: Water Rights and Hagar’s Tribulations

The theological problem underlying environmental and gender injustice is the pathological assumption that “the rest of” creation is available for use and commodification by a select group of privileged image bearers. An adequate response to this assumption requires re-examining appropriate relations...

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Main Author: Copeland, Rebecca L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2020
In: Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 4, Pages: 191-199
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Genesis / Hagar, Biblical person / Desert / Water / Well
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Environmental Justice
B Ecological Hermeneutics
B Genesis
B Hagar
B ecomimetic interpretation
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Summary:The theological problem underlying environmental and gender injustice is the pathological assumption that “the rest of” creation is available for use and commodification by a select group of privileged image bearers. An adequate response to this assumption requires re-examining appropriate relationships between creatures. The story of Hagar’s relationship to water provides the foundation for such a response. An ecomimetic interpretation of Genesis 16:1–16 and 21:8–21, focused on the character of water in these passages, uncovers the basis for an appropriate human relationship to water that challenges the ways in which both water and women have been commodified.
ISSN:1945-7596
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0146107920958986