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Scripture, culture, and agriculture : an Agrarian reading of the Bible / Ellen F. Davis ; foreword by Wendell Berry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xvii, 234 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521518345 (alk. paper)
  • 9780521732239 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.8/8 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1199.L28 D39 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Rupture and re-membering -- Reading the Bible through agrarian eyes -- Seeing with God : Israel's poem of creation -- Leaving Egypt behind : embracing the wilderness economy -- A wholesome materiality : reading Leviticus -- Covenantal economics : the biblical case for a local economy -- Running on poetry : the agrarian prophets -- Wisdom or sloth? : the character of work -- The faithful city.
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 261.88 D261S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 049352

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-221) and indexes.

Rupture and re-membering -- Reading the Bible through agrarian eyes -- Seeing with God : Israel's poem of creation -- Leaving Egypt behind : embracing the wilderness economy -- A wholesome materiality : reading Leviticus -- Covenantal economics : the biblical case for a local economy -- Running on poetry : the agrarian prophets -- Wisdom or sloth? : the character of work -- The faithful city.

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