These are books and articles I read (in addition to the Bible) or plan to read — that stimulate my thinking on my topic of interest, the human-animal relationship in the Bible. I’ll add to it as I come to things that interest or I think might interest me. I include some readings that may seem far afield. While they aren’t about animals, per se, or the human-animal relationship, they have something to do, in my mind, with the place and value of human life in the hierarchy (or non-hierarchy) of ceation. The list is in no particular order:
- Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Sacred Activism) from Quartz by Charles Eisenstein
- Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, And Society In The Age Of Transition by Charles Eisenstein
- “Does A Bear Think in the Woods?” From Sierra Club
- The Hidden Life Of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries From A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- The Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy Book 3) by Peter Wohlleben
- The Inner Life Of Animals: Love, Grief, And Compassion—Surprising Observations Of A Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben
- Living with Other Creatures by Richard Bauckham
- Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat by Barbara J. King
- Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Other Animals by Nathan Lents. Loved this book.
- Mama’s Last Hug: What Animal Emotions Tell Us About Ourselves by Frans De Waal, comparative primatologist. De Waal has authored or co-authored at least 10 books exploring the relationship between humans and non-human animals. I hope to read them all. I first discovered De Waal when I saw a TedTalk on Facebook of his experiments with Capuchin monkeys demonstrating their sense of fairness.
- ”Other Animals Have ‘Human’ Emotions Too,” about Frans Van de Waal’s newest book, Mama’s Last Hug.
- Moral Behavior in Animals – video, Frans Van de Waal Ted Talk
- “What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?” From Patheos.
- ”Jewish Ethics and Nonhuman Animals” by Lisa Kemmerer in Animals Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2 – 2007.
- ”Who Decided What Books the Hebrew Bible Would Contain?” By Elon Gilad from HaAretz, May 26, 2019.