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Adamah (ăd`əmə), in the Bible, Naphtalite city. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| it becomes clear that religious
institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental
repair," author Bernstein, who also founded the first Jewish
environmental group, Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the Earth, writes in The
Splendor of Creation. Schwartz's work on the relations between land ownership and
nationalism is some of the most powerful in the book; her recurrent play
on the words Adam, adamah (earth) and the am ha-aretz (in Jewish
tradition the ignorant "man of the earth," the
"clod") serves as a reminder that the story of Eden is not
primarily about sexual sin but about the human relationship to land. |
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