Table of Contents
Book of Genesis
Chapter 1, verse 1: Caring for Creation 3
1:3: Sustainability and Spiritual Awareness 4
1:5: Previous and Current Extinction Events 4
1:9: Water and Dry Land 4
1:11-12: Edible Trees 5
1:22: God Blesses Fish and Birds 5
1:26: On Eating Animals 6
1:28: Will Humans Rule, or Animals? 7
1:29: A Plant-Based Diet for People 8
1:30: Vegan Crocodiles 9
1:31: Creation Was "Very Good" 9
2:5: Praying for Creation 10
2:8: Re-Creating Paradise 10
2:15: The Stewardship Paradigm 11
2:17: Forbidden Fruit and Self Control 13
2:19: Learning from Animals 13
3:6: Holy Eating 14
3:11: All Creations Are Connected 15
3:17: Eating the Forbidden Fruit 16
3:18: Edible Weeds 16
3:19: Connected to the Earth 17
4:9: Taking Responsibility for Others 17
4:13: From Farmer to Refugee 18
6:16: The Ark and Green Building 19
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6:18: Population and Restraint 20
6:19: Noah as Earth Steward 21
6:21: Caring for Creatures 23
7:23: Plastic, Fish, and People 23
8:6: Saving the Raven 24
9:13: Rainbows and Responsibility 24
9:20: Floods and Fairtrade 26
11:1-3: Lording over Nature 26
11:4: The Limits of Technology 27
11:6: Diversity Sustains Life 28
12:1: Palace on Fire 30
12:10: Famine in Genesis 30
13:6: Sustainable Coexistence 31
13:10: The Dead Sea Is Dying 32
13:17: Hiking the Land 33
14:10: Stuck in Crude Oil 33
14:22-23: Abraham and Self-Satisfaction 35
15:5: Finding God Outdoors 35
15:13-14: The Cure before the Sickness 36
18:4: Resilience of Trees 37
18:7: Veal Then and Now 37
19:24: Sodom and Acid Rain 38
19:24: Morality and Ecology 39
19:25: Abraham and the Burning Kiln 40
21:33: Sustainable Peace 41
23:4: Sarah and Sustainable Burial 42
23:13: Relationship with Earth 43
23:17-18: Sarah and Trees 44
24:14: Rebecca's Kindness to Camels 45
24:63: Praying in the Fields 46
25:23: Sustainable Luxuries 47
25:27: The Conflict of Jacob and Esau 48
25:28: Love of Meat 49
25:30: Holy Eating 50
25:34: Fast and Slow Food 52
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26:12, 15: Isaac and Water Mapping 53
26:20: Water Wars 54
27:6-9: Hunters and Farmers 55
27:28: Doing All We Can 56
28:11: Sleeping Alone in Nature 57
28:13: Connecting with the Earth 58
28:20: Jacob's Simplicity 59
28:21: Jacob as Spiritual Activist 59
31:10-13: Jacob's Spiritual and Material Dreams 60
31:18: Large Herds of Livestock 61
32:24: Small Vessels 62
33:9-11: Being Content with What We Have 64
33:12-14: How Fast We Move 65
33:18: Building Infrastructure 66
37:2: Shepherd Consciousness 68
37:12: Nature and Violence 70
37:14: Nature and Our Work 71
37:25: From Silk Route to Air Freight 72
40:7: Considering Others 73
40:11, 17: Wine and Bread 74
41:1: On the Nile River 76
Additional 22 commentaries on Genesis 77-97
Book of Exodus
1:7-9: Soaring Population 99
1:11: Ecological Liberation 100
2:3: Bitumen: Biblical and Modern 101
2:16: Precious Groundwater 101
3:1: Shepherds Become National Leaders 102
3:2: Renewable Divine Fire 103
3:2: Holy Land 104
4:3-9: Water, Staff, Snake, and Leprosy 104
6:6: Hard Labor and Work's Yoke 106
7:5: The Plagues and Nature 106
7:17: Gratitude to Nature 107
7:18: Waking Up in Time 108
Additional 71 commentaries on Exodus: 108-176
Biographical Details 177
Glossary 183
Notes 185
Index 223
About the Co-editors and Lead Contributors 231