The Bible and the Domestication of the World
Written in an agricultural context oriented around life and work with domesticated animals, the Bible’s texts, from Genesis 1 onward, endorse a picture of human destiny to farm the land and dominate other living beings. In doing so, the Bible contrasts with the cosmologies of low-domesticating indig...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2023, Volume: 31, Issue: 5, Pages: 579-601 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Animals
/ Domestication
/ Victim (Religion)
/ Geschlechterforscher
/ Cosmology
/ Indigenous peoples
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
indigenous cosmologies
B Domestication B Genesis B animal studies B Gender B Sacrifice |
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| Summary: | Written in an agricultural context oriented around life and work with domesticated animals, the Bible’s texts, from Genesis 1 onward, endorse a picture of human destiny to farm the land and dominate other living beings. In doing so, the Bible contrasts with the cosmologies of low-domesticating indigenous cultures in privileging domesticating and domestication-like modes of relationship between sentient beings. This is not limited to the Bible’s picture of inter-species human relationships. Rather the paradigm of human domination of other beings is analogous to domestication-like relationships between genders, ethnicities and others that are naturalized in subsequent Biblical and post-Biblical texts. We even see a reflection of domesticating assumptions in the picture, across both Testaments of the Christian Bible, of God as a domesticator-like figure and God’s people as a flock that God protects and requires obedience and sacrifice from. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-31050005 |