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Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible. She also cares about the environment. Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society and economy as well as in biblical theology, she walks readers through passages familiar and not-so-familiar, showing how significant environmental theology is in the Bible’s witness. She then calls Christians to apply that message to today’s environmental concerns. ...

to be butchered on site for the meat to remain edible, explains the inordinately small number of bones from yearlings (sheep, goat, or cattle) recovered from Israelite villages and the large number retrieved from worship sites.10 What we learn here is that Israel’s worship was structured around the regular acknowledgment that nothing they had was truly theirs. It all belonged to Yahweh. Here we also find Yahweh’s divinely authorized taxation system—the ultimate indicator that the people of Israel
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