Titlebook: An Ethical View of Human-Animal Relations in the Ancient Near East; Idan Breier Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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Sumerian Faunal Fables: Talking Animals and Educational Lessons,shunned. Closely analyzing the early sources from a comparative perspective, this chapter explores the ways in which animals lived and interacted with human beings in third-millennium Sumer, animal types and the socio-ethical values they represent, and whether they influenced Aesop’s later Greek fables.

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Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes, legal “owners” of animals that cause damage. Demonstrating how fauna form part of the biblical ethical system, in which ethical demands become binding statutes, it looks at why this process only occurred in the Hebrew Bible and not in other ancient Near Eastern cultures.

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Human-Animal Relations in Biblical Narrative and Historiography,nd his donkey, the Samson cycle, the return of the Ark from Philistia, the prophet from Bethel, etc. Although analyzed in light of their historical background, the texts are explored primarily from an ethical perspective, framed in the scholarly literature on human-animal ethics.

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The Place and Role of Animals in the Psalms and Biblical Wisdom Literature,’s needs and/or illustrate the principle of faith and trust in God and his salvation. It then discusses how the faunal imagery in the wisdom corpus, which exemplifies God’s concern for the animal kingdom, serves to convey ideas relating to proper behavior, maintenance of the social order, relations between the righteous and wicked, etc.