When land isn’t simply land.
Amanda and Amy dive into the complicated relationship between land possession and belonging within the U.S., drawing on biblical interpretations. Amanda emphasised the importance of land in shaping political and non secular beliefs, whereas Amy supplied nuanced interpretations of the Hebrew Bible, revealing the way it has been used to justify land possession and extraction.
On this dialog, Amy and Amanda talk about the Bible’s views on land and its interpretation. They discover the contradictory views on land possession and the connection between land and id. In addition they look at the affect of assumptions about land in the USA and the disconnect between city elites and the land. Amy shares her private journey of creating a deeper reference to the land by means of actions like searching and fly-fishing. The dialog highlights the therapeutic energy of the land and the significance of understanding our relationship with it.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
03:13 The Bible’s Contradictory Views on Land
08:29 Genesis 1 and the Interpretation of Land
12:22 John Locke and the Interpretation of Land Possession
14:20 The Connection Between Land and Identification
20:23 The Affect of Assumptions About Land in the USA
23:10 The Disconnect Between City Elites and the Land
26:08 The Affect of Land Use on Communities
28:30 Private Connection to the Land
30:26 The Therapeutic Energy of the Land
33:18 The Bible’s View on Our Relationship With the Land
Visitor:
Amy Erickson is Professor of Hebrew Bible on the Iliff Faculty of Theology. Erickson teaches a variety of programs in biblical interpretation, together with The Physique and Sexuality within the Hebrew Bible, The Hebrew Bible and Ecology, and Jonah and Its Afterlives. Her analysis pursuits embrace Hebrew poetry, poetic and mythological texts in historical West Asian literature, and the Hebrew Bible’s historical past of interpretation.
She is the writer of a commentary on the E-book of Jonah and its historical past of interpretation, titled “Jonah: Introduction and Commentary” (Illuminations; Eerdmans, 2021), and has written articles on Job, Jonah, the Psalms, Zechariah and Amos for educational journals and edited volumes. Erickson can be a daily contributor to WorkingPreacher.org, HuffPost’s ON Scripture, The Christian Century and Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (de Gruyter). She is at the moment engaged on a ebook on the Hebrew Bible and ecology.
An Interview with Eerdmans Publishing Co. about Erickson’s book on Jonah.
Psalm 1: Putting Evil in Its Place
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