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Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible Commentary
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Arthur Walker-Jones presents an Earth-focused reading of the second book of Psalms, focusing upon the many nonhuman animals that appear repeatedly within the text. In the first commentary to explore the implications of the natural and cultural history of animals for the interpretation of Psalms, Walker-Jones moves beyond the standard treatment of animals as mere metaphors for human concerns, or background to human stories.
Instead, Walker-Jones draws upon the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, incorporating this into ecocritical analysis and arguing for the similarity between the two approaches, including recognizing that the oppression and liberation of humans is interrelated with the oppression and liberation of Earth and all its creatures. Walker-Jones looks at foxes, sheep, goats, cattle, doves, snakes, lions, snails, dogs, and deer, which all appear in Psalms 42–72, taking into account that many of these animals co-evolved with humans and created the particular ecological niche of the highlands east of the Mediterranean. Perceiving Earth in various ways-as refuge, as enemy, as Rock, and as fertile and joyous-this volume brings an entirely new ecological perspective to the Psalms.
Arthur Walker Jones
Arthur Walker-Jones has an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation and The Green Psalter: Resources for an Ecological Spirituality, as well as numerous, scholarly articles, chapters in books, and dictionary entries. He is currently writing a commentary on the Book of Psalms for the Earth Bible Commentary. His areas of academic specialization are ecological biblical criticism, the Book of Psalms, and biblical creation stories.
Dr. Walker-Jones has been involved in a variety of environmental organizations and is currently Chair of Green Faith Alliance Canada, and Chair of the Canadian Conference of Bishops/United Church of Canada Dialogue on Climate Change. He is regularly asked to speak at synagogues, churches, retreat centres, and schools on the Bible, Ecology, Psalms, Spirituality, and Ethics.
Before coming to the University of Winnipeg, Dr. Walker-Jones served for six years as overseas personnel for the United Church of Canada and was a Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji. Before that, he served for three years as a minister of the Emsdale Pastoral Charge in the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada.
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