Gafanhotos na Bíblia Hebraica: Suas dimensões socioambientais e teológicas

Matthias Grenzer; Leonardo Agostini Fernandes

doi:10.23925/rct.i105.61571

Authors

Matthias Grenzer PUC-SP http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3490-3112
Leonardo Agostini Fernandes PUC-Rio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/rct.i105.61571

Keywords:

Locust, Bible and ecology, green reading, socioenvironmental dimensions

Abstract

Biblical literature, besides reflecting on God and the human being, thinks deeply about non-human beings, that is, the air, the water, the soil, the heat, the plants, and the animals. At times it admires the beauty of these beings and the functioning of the ecosystem, and at other times it contemplates those forces amid nature that suddenly threaten the human being's survival. One glimpses how a specific purpose accompanies the existence of each being. Thus, nature, understood as divine creation, becomes God's word. That is, the abiotic beings, flora and fauna allow experiences and gain symbolic connotations that bring human beings closer to the mystery of life and, with it, to the hope that God will save his creation. In this investigation, the insect commonly called locust or grasshopper is targeted. What does the Hebrew Bible, by mentioning it fifty-five times, bring to a socio-environmental and/or theological reflection to its readers?

Author Biographies

Matthias Grenzer, PUC-SP

Doutor em Teologia pela Faculdade de Teologia e Filosofia St. Georgen em Frankfurt, Alemanha. Professor da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP). Contato: mgrenzer@pucsp.br.

Leonardo Agostini Fernandes, PUC-Rio

Doutor em Teologia pela Pontofícia Universidade Gregoriana – IT. Professor da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUCRJ). Contato: laf2007@pucrio.br

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