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Ecology and Genesis 1:26-28

Ecology and Genesis 1:26-28. Anthony Ceresko, OSFS (2002). The Anti-monarchical tradition in Gen 1:26-28. Cereko’s reading “against the grain” Against the common understanding that “ kabash ” and “ radah ” are a language of royal absolute power. The OT bears an anti-monarchical tradition:

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Ecology and Genesis 1:26-28

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  1. Ecology and Genesis 1:26-28 Anthony Ceresko, OSFS (2002)

  2. The Anti-monarchical tradition in Gen 1:26-28 • Cereko’s reading “against the grain” • Against the common understanding that “kabash” and “radah” are a language of royal absolute power.

  3. The OT bears an anti-monarchical tradition: • Roots: in the origins of Israel • Bitter experience of oppression and exploitation of fleeing refugee slaves from Egypt led by Moses and protesting Canaanite peasant farmers. • A theory of Norman Gottwald, Tribes of Yahweh (1979)

  4. Other anti-monarchical texts: • Saul’s tragic end • David’s sin with Bathsheba

  5. Rafaello

  6. Solomon’s mistakes • Hammas (forced labor) • Ol (heavy yoke) • He and 1000 wives and concubines • Worshipped Chemosh and Molech • Kings being condemned is pervasive. • Read the irony of the blind and the lame in 2 Sam 5:6-10 • in the Prophetic literature, • also in Wisdom Literature (book of Job)

  7. This text (Gen 1:26-28) rejects the monarchical model. • Note what is being emphasized: • Interdependence of all creation • Not human power over creation. • Solidarity and mutuality with nature. • Hence, an “opening toward equality.”

  8. Kabash and Radah as rebuilding the earth • Ceresko’s reading “with the grain” • With the common understanding that these two words mean human being subdues the earth. • Subdue in the sense of: rebuild, restore, put in order • The historical context • Critical life just after the exile • Poverty, see Nehemiah 5:1-5 • Lack of clean water see Isaiah 41:17-18

  9. Genesis 1:26-28 – divine call for human beings to make use of their intelligence and technological ability to: • Build and to plant • Construct towns and cities, roads and bridges • Farm and harvest.

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