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This is a manuscript for a presentation at the 2022 Urban Food Sovereignty Summit of the University of South Florida. It explores the theme of gardens in the Bible as it relates to the meaning of being made in God's image, and how it relates to the movement for food sovereignty today.
2016 •
A probe into the literature of early Christianity to discern the impact of serious biblical study on theological reflection and mission, and how such study proceeds.
Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics
Gary W. Fick: Food, Farming, and Faith2010 •
Food, Farming, and Faith is Gary Fick’s culminating monograph that weaves together a lifetime of personal narrative, religious sensibilities (he self-identifies as a Christian environmentalist on p. 32), and years of research and training in agronomy. Such a mixture creates a unique approach with which to look at contemporary agricultural issues. Overall, this book represents a novel attempt at digging into new, fertile ground.The book consists of twelve stand-alone chapters, ranging from setting the stage in “It is All about Food,” to “Ecology in the Bible,” to “The Culture of Agriculture.” It also rightly discusses “Abuse, Poverty, and Women,” and concludes with a paean to “Agricultural Sustainability.” The book includes three appendices with two giving a quick overview of how Fick utilized five Biblical sources for scripture quotations. The third appendix contains fifteen essentials for sustainable agriculture that are based on Fick’s exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament c ...
2024 •
Mention of the garden in the Bible begins in the opening chapters of Genesis (2:8). In this passage, the garden is a plantation of the Lord in Eden, in which he later puts man to care for it. In biblical literature, the motif of the garden presents several images. The aim of this study is to examine some of the aspects of the garden from Genesis to the New Testament, including intertestamental literature.
Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
Gardens of the Bible as a Place of Encounter between Man and GodThis article combines two goals. The first is to show the gardens of the Bible as the background settings for the most important encounters between God and man, and the second is to define the genius loci of these places. The challenge was to isolate the physical features of the gardens of the Bible as carriers of spiritual aspects. The introduction presents the role of nature and the garden as the theatre of God's Glory (mentioned by Calvin). It explores moreover the sacred aspects of historical gardens and then describes the nature of individual gardens of the Bible and the events that took place there, closing with the results of observations ordered by parameters that make up the western-defined genius loci (spirit of the place), such as: things, earth, sky, order, and character. At the end of each description of a garden, the challenge of defining its spirit was taken for the first time. The inspiring phenomenon of gardens and the conscious use of selected elements will meet not only aesthetic expectations but also the spiritual exploration of contemporary people.
Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Convivial Gardens: Genesis 2–3 in Agrarian and Space-Critical Perspective2023 •
Genesis 2–3 is among the most beloved yet misunderstood texts in the Hebrew Bible. Many biblical and post-biblical interpretations focus on themes of sin, death, and God’s banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. These have fostered misapprehensions regarding the value of God’s creation and the dangerous image of an “Old Testament God of wrath.” This essay uses space-critical analysis to focus on the spaces of Eden—from ground to bodies to gardens—to show that Ivan Illich’s notion of “conviviality” best captures Eden’s true ethic of cooperation, environmental caretaking, and the positive portrait of a gentle God who makes humans by hand.
1998 •
Material Religion
Biblical Gardens and the Sensuality of Religious Pedagogy2017 •
This article explores how the phenomenon of biblical gardens joins three bodies of scholarship: the social life of scriptures, the study of religion’s media turn, and religious pedagogy. As a kind of religious attraction, the biblical garden is both devotional and pedagogical, with historic roots in nineteenth century projects to connect botanical science with biblical literacy. I argue that the pedagogy of biblical gardens is anchored by an ideology of sensual indexicality and a strategy of metonymic immersion, which is differentiated from themed immersion. Analyses are drawn from observational and textual data, as well as comparative data from other forms of Holy Land replication, primarily in the United States. Ultimately, I argue that biblical gardens resist a modern ideology that elevates visual experience atop a sensory hierarchy.
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2020 •
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Species of Environmental Mycobacteria Differ in Their Abilities To Grow in Human, Mouse, and Carp Macrophages and with Regard to the Presence of Mycobacterial Virulence Genes, as Observed by DNA Microarray Hybridization2007 •
2021 •
Revista de la Fundación Educación Médica
¿Qué tecnología escojo para mi clase? Percepción de estudiantes de medicina sobre clickers y Kahoot2020 •
Conjectura: filosofia e educação
Linguagem matemática e Língua Portuguesa: diálogo necessário na resolução de problemas matemáticosJournal of Molecular Structure
Synthesis, characterization, quantum chemical calculations and evaluation of antioxidant properties of 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives including 2- and 3-methoxy cinnamic acids2017 •
Salud Pública de México
Definición de prioridades para las intervenciones de salud en el Sistema de Protección Social en Salud de México2007 •
Chemistry – A European Journal
Strong Equatorial Crystal Field Enhances the Axial Anisotropy and Energy Barrier for Spin Reversal Process in Yb 2 Single Molecule Magnets2021 •
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Biological activity of amphiphilic metal complexes2019 •
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Associations between microalbuminuria and animal foods, plant foods, and dietary patterns in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis2008 •
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Design patterns for marine biology simulation2004 •
Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
Partially replacing sorghum silage with cactus ( Opuntia stricta ) cladodes in a soybean oil‐supplemented diet markedly increases trans ‐11 18:1, cis ‐9, trans ‐11 CLA and 18:2 n‐6 contents in cow milk2020 •
International Affairs
Left Populism and Foreign Policy: Bernie Sanders and Podemos