Setting Free the Mother Bird
On Reading a Strange Text
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20458926 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Muers (0000-0002-4775-6804, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 555-576 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-7177 • E-ISSN: 1468-0025 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00335.x |
| OpenAlex | W2052529331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Deuteronomy 22:6–7 has been used in recent theological discussions of environmental ethics. Earlier traditions of interpretation (Jewish and Christian) suggest the further possibility of reading it as a text about how to read texts and about the nature and function of law. This article examines, and offers a contemporary Christian reappropriation of, these traditions of interpretation. The focus is on how the confrontation with the vulnerable other as a locus of divine revelation interrupts and transforms relations of use and exploitation. It is argued that in a Christian reading of the bird's‐nest precept Christ “does what the precept does”
Art · Epistemology · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Precept · Revelation · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |