In Reading the Bible Amid the Environmental Crisis, Doane showcases innovative ways to read the Bible in the Anthropocene ... This erudite work will appeal to students of biblical ecotheology and ecocriticism, as well as to Christians who wish to find innovative ways to use Biblical resources to address the ecological crisis of our time. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

Choice Reviews

Doane invites readers to reject the Cartesian myth that still holds sway over our imaginations, and instead to embrace the possibility of living permeably and interdependently, a possibility that Doane so convincingly elicits from his generous interdisciplinary exploration of (and sometimes intervention into) ecological biblical interpretation.

The Bible and Critical Theory

Ground-breaking, thought-provoking, stirring, and magnificently well-read. This book gushes with life, connecting landscapes, living beings, and natural forces, with the divine enmeshed in Scripture. Doane explores concrete new ways of reading the Bible that may refresh and reroute our commitments in the midst of environmental disaster and denial of it. Pioneering inspirational work!

Rodolfo Felices Luna, Oblate School of Theology

In this expertly-crafted volume, Sébastien Doane reads the Bible in light of the urgent ecological issues of our day. Exploring diverse texts from the Old and New Testaments, he offers interpretations which are innovative, thought-provoking, and compelling. He draws on wide-ranging theorists in accessible and creative ways, gently drawing his readers beyond traditional and stale interpretive practices into new ways of thinking and reading ecologically. Furthermore, Doane remains aware of the transformative power of reading and never neglects the imperative – in our time of climate crisis – to move from text to action.

Suzanna Millar, University of Edinburgh

A creative and innovative study of the Bible which engages in various interdisciplinary readings of biblical texts from an ecological perspective ... [it is] a valuable reference point for students, scholars, or lay readers who are seeking inventive new ways to conduct ecological readings of biblical texts.

The Expository Times

Sébastien Doane's theoretically erudite and exegetically incisive book is the most ambitious product to date of the transdisciplinary turn in biblical ecotheology and ecocriticism that began a decade ago, succeeding the intradisciplinary phase that began with the Earth Bible series. It exemplifies what biblical studies needs to be, and needs to do, in our Anthropocenic age of climate change, agribusiness, and mass extinction.

Stephen D. Moore, Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, The Theological School, Drew University