Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights

49. Animal Agency and the Mouth of the Donkey, with Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan

Sam Mickey Season 1 Episode 49

This week’s episode of Spotlights is another short clip from our episode featuring Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, PhD, Director of Inter-religious Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. In this clip, Rabbi Laura talks about the symbolic meaning of donkeys in the Bible as well as the question of animal agency or personhood, reflecting on her book, Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals (Wipf & Stock, 2021).

Listen to the full episode here or watch it here.