An Ethical View of Human-Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:20th Oct '22
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Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.
Key Features:- Provides the first comprehensive study of these texts from an ethical perspective.
- Examines proverbs, popular aphorisms, myths, epic literature, wisdom literature, historiography, prophecy, and law codes.
- Applies methodology from current contemporary biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholarship and human-animal ethics, thereby raising new questions that lead to fresh insights.
An Ethical View of Human Animal-Relations in the Ancient Near East is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of animal ethics, applied ethics and biblical studies.
“Breier’s interdisciplinary methods … and the pictures he leaves us with are fittingly varied and complex … . To take an image from the Book of Mark, having prepared so much good ground so carefully, Breier is to be commended for sowing these many mustard seeds. The concluding portions of each chapter serve to marshal broad and disparate textual evidence into a series of manageable overviews that may act as fertile starting points for further ethical analysis.” (Alastair Harden, Journal of Animal Ethics, Vol. 13 (2), 2023)
ISBN: 9783031124044
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254 pages
1st ed. 2022