Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: The Afterlives of Noah’s Ark – Gender, Disability

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How do we imagine the promise of survival, the possibility of making it through? In Jewish and Christian communities, Noah’s ark has long been a symbol of divine rescue when the flood waters rise. But it is also a dangerous cultural template, one where only a chosen few survive. Heeding a powerful call from disability activists and environmental justice movements, this talk asks us to take a hard look at whose lives are deemed worth saving, and whose bodies are able to find shelter from the storm. It will also dive into ancient Jewish texts that grapple forthrightly with the ethical dangers of the Noah story, and that radically reimagine the ark as a space where all sorts of unconventional bodies — even the unicorns — are able to survive.

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