Animal Rights and the Hebrew Bible
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 September 2023
- ISBN 9780197609385
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 162x237x17 mm
- Weight 372 g
- Language English 497
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Short description:
Does the Hebrew Bible ascribe an implicit form of legal personhood or legal rights to animals? If so, which animals--domesticated or wild, or both--receive which rights, and for what purpose? For the first time, author Saul M. Olyan addresses these questions in detail and explores how the evidence of the Hebrew Bible might contribute to contemporary debates about animal rights in the academy, in the courts, in the public square, and in religious communities.
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Does the Hebrew Bible ascribe an implicit form of legal personhood or legal rights to animals? If so, which animals--domesticated or wild, or both--receive which rights, and for what purpose? Scholars have been slow to consider these questions, and animal-oriented research as a whole, in the field of biblical studies. For the first time, author Saul M. Olyan addresses these questions in detail and explores how the evidence of the Hebrew Bible might contribute to contemporary debates about animal rights in the academy, in the courts, in the public square, and in religious communities.
In this book, Olyan demonstrates that seven different biblical texts extend both legal personhood and rights to animals. The rights conferred upon them are mainly specific and situational, and the legal personhood associated them is in most cases best characterized as limited. Nonetheless, he argues that the animal rights described by these texts are genuine because they are not contingent on the needs or demands of others, they do not disappear or give way because of conflict with the interests of another legal person, and they may not be violated with impunity. Finally, Olyan considers how the biblical texts examined in his analyses might be used to extend or strengthen the arguments of those advocating for animals in judicial, academic, political, or religious settings.
Saul Olyan brilliantly demonstrates how a number of biblical texts see animals as possessing rights and personhood. This is an outstanding book that makes a major scholarly contribution and brings clarity to a subject that is often misunderstood.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1, Four Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights
Chapter 2, Animals as Covenant Partners in Genesis 9:8-17 and Hosea 2:20 (Eng. 2:18)
Chapter 3, Animal Culpability and Its Ramifications for Legal Status
Chapter 4, Symmetry or Asymmetry According to the Law? The Case of Domesticated Animals and Human Beings
Chapter 5, Animal Welfare: The Evidence of Biblical Texts
Conclusion
Index
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