RT Article
T1 "Are there Legal Texts in the Hebrew Bible that Evince a Concern for Animal Rights?"
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 27
IS 3
SP 321
OP 339
A1 Olyan, Saul M. 1959-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1683562283
AB Much has been written about animal rights in the four decades since the appearance of Peter Singer's classic monograph Animal Liberation (1975) and not a few studies consider - often in passing - what biblical texts have to contribute to debates about animal rights. These studies are, however, almost exclusively the work of non-specialists. I begin to address this dearth of professional scholarship on this topic by exploring what four biblical laws -  Exod. 23:10-11, 12; Lev. 25:2-7 and Deut. 5:12-15 - might suggest about the legal standing of animals. As legal scholar Gary L. Francione states, "[W]e normally use [the term "rights"] to describe a type of protection that does not evaporate in the face of consequential considerations." In this article, I consider whether the four biblical laws in question meet this standard.
K1 Book of the Covenant
K1 Deuteronomy
K1 Hebrew Bible
K1 Leviticus
K1 Animal Rights
K1 Biblical Law
DO 10.1163/15685152-00273P01