Author explores human-animal encounters in Bible – The Nugget Newspaper
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Bend-based author and rabbi Yossi Feintuch will present his new book, “Taming the Beast: Human-Animal Encounters in the Bible,” at Paulina Springs Books on Thursday, August 20 at 6:30 p.m
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Yossi Feintuch
With innovative perspectives and fresh interpretations, “Taming the Beast” invites readers to reconsider iconic biblical stories through a new lens to gain a deeper understanding of the Bible’s animal world
Discover a compelling exploration of humanity’s role as the Bible’s supreme predator-the only species God describes as “prone to evil from youth,” and notably not as “the Crown of Creation.” Yet humans continue-today as in biblical times-to project their own unparalleled capacity for violence onto predatory animals
“Taming the Beast” illustrates how the Bible seeks to restrain and redirect these human destructive tendencies, even as it highlights the collateral suffering biblical animals endure because of human corruption. At the same time, the book uncovers the Bible’s view of a fundamental kinship between humans and animals, showing how animal motherhood mirrors human experience and how animals often serve as moral and spiritual role models. It also examines humanity’s irrational fear of wild animals and probes God’s controversial post-flood permission to eat meat despite the Bible’s broader discouragement of making meat a dietary staple.
Yossi Feintuch was ordained a rabbi by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1994 and received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, from the same institution in 2019. Over the course of his rabbinic career, Rabbi Feintuch has served congregations on Curacao; in Columbia, Missouri; in Bend, Oregon; and Yuma, Arizona
He holds academic degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (B.A. in International Relations and History), New York University (M.A. in History), and Emory University (Ph.D. in U.S. History). Dr. Feintuch is also the author of U.S. Policy on Jerusalem (Greenwood Press) and numerous articles on biblical themes in print and digital publications
Paulina Springs Books is located at 252 W. Hood Ave
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