RT Article
T1 The “Living Soul” in People and Animals: Environmental Themes from Genesis 2
JF Biblical theology bulletin
VO 51
IS 3
SP 168
OP 174
A1 Gnuse, Robert Karl 1947-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/176142355X
AB Genesis 2 contains some powerful imagery germane to the discussion of environmental awareness and responsibility. Both humans and animals are described in Hebrew as nephesh hayya', a “living being,” but in English we translate the words differently to maintain our human superiority. We subsequently disown our oneness with the animal realm by brutalizing species of animals throughout the world. Likewise the human is put into the garden to “keep” or “protect” it, which is not what we have been doing with either the world or the animal kingdom.
K1 yellow cat
K1 “keep"
K1 Extinction
K1 Environment
K1 nephesh hayya'
K1 Creation
K1 Genesis 2
DO 10.1177/01461079211019210