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SV4146 PROPHETS AND ECOLOGY (A.Y. 2025/2026)
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Accademic Unit
Biblical Faculty
Description
A warming world has irreversible implications for every inhabitant of the common home called the Earth, of which we humans form but a part. A growing ecological sensitivity therefore has rightly come to characterize our time. Joining in this common cause are those who have charted some helpful roadmaps towards ecological hermeneutics. The same has since then been meaningfully carried forward to the arena of biblical hermeneutics. Such contemporary clarion calls provide the impetus for the seminar Prophets and Ecology.
The seminar aims to inculcate in the participants an acute awareness of the ecological issues, invite them to familiarize with the reading dispositions that ecological hermeneutic scholars have enunciated, and bring them to fruitfully bear upon reading some of the texts from the Eighth-Century Hebrew Prophets in order to outline some contextual imports for the contexts, then and now!
Objectives
1. Familiarizing with a fairly recent and yet rapidly growing field of inquiry, called ecological hermeneutics.
2. Engaging the ecological hermeneutics in its diverse hues: the Earth Bible Project’s perceptive triad of suspicion, identification and retrieval, together with its interlocutors—voices from university of Exeter and beyond.
3. The role and relevance of ecological hermeneutic categories for reading biblical texts, especially the eighth-century prophetic texts.
4. Adumbrating the outcome of such readings for appropriating the prophetic texts under fresh light and to outline their relevance for contemporary contexts.
5. Sessions of the international conference on Bible and Ecology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Nov 6-8, 2025) will provide ample opportunities to hear and learn from ecologically informed biblical scholars from diverse global contexts.
Evaluation
Post-Conf activities : 15
Seminar Presentation : 35
Final Paper : 50
Information
- Semester: 1° Semestre
- ECTS: 5
Teachers
Sundararaj Dominic IRUDAYARAJ
Lesson schedule/Room
Lessons schedule not available
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