The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Humans from the Hummus – life as royal gardeners It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly. As Jewish scholar Ziony Zevit observes, agricultural themes are clearer in the Garden story.[1]As we saw earlier, Habel identifies it as […]
Month: May 2024
The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 1 (Mick Pope)
The article is published in two installments. Agriculture and the Anthropocene Earth history has entered a new geological era known as the Anthropocene.[1] The commonly agreed origin of this era was the 1950s with the “Great Acceleration,” a period of rapid economic growth.[2] With its onset, several key elements of the Earth system which represent […]