Ecocriticism, Theology, and the Environment in Haviva Pedaya’s The Eye of the Cat
Haviva Pedaya’s book The Eye of the Cat presents an innovative theology of ecology, yet in correspondence with traditional Jewish-Kabbalistic sources. I discuss Pedaya’s ecopoetic reading of these sources, as well as her own midrashim in this regard. Pedaya raises questions regarding the place of ma...
| Published in: | Worldviews |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Worldviews
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pedayah, Ḥavivah 1957-, Be-ʻen he-ḥatul
/ Beer Sheva
/ Ecological theology
/ Urbanity
/ Waste
/ Midrash
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism FD Contextual theology KBL Near East and North Africa NBD Doctrine of Creation NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew literature
B Beersheba B ecopoetics B Kabbalah B trash |
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| Summary: | Haviva Pedaya’s book The Eye of the Cat presents an innovative theology of ecology, yet in correspondence with traditional Jewish-Kabbalistic sources. I discuss Pedaya’s ecopoetic reading of these sources, as well as her own midrashim in this regard. Pedaya raises questions regarding the place of man in the world; political questions regarding center and periphery; urbanization and nature; construction and destruction. These questions arise via the book’s unique poetic expression. Pedaya offers a theology of waste, addressing the place of garbage in the human sphere through the Kabbalistic idiom regarding the collection of qlipoth (“husks” קליפות,). The Kabbalistic project of collecting the qlipoth, which previously functioned in the context of an esoteric and mostly secretive symbolic system, now takes on a different meaning in light of the real “husks” that demand to be collected and reused. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5357 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Worldviews
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685357-20220202 |