Mouth of the Donkey: Re-Imagining Biblical Animals

The Hebrew Bible is filled with animals. Snakes and ravens share meals with people; donkeys and sheep work alongside us; eagles and lions inspire us; locusts warn us. How should we read their stories? What can they teach us about ecology spirituality and ethics? Author Laura Duhan-Kaplan explores these questions weaving together biology Kabbalah rabbinic midrash Indigenous wisdom modern literary methods and personal experiences. She re-imagines Jacobs sheep as family Balaams donkey as a spiritual director Eves snake as a misguided helper. Finally Rabbi Laura invites metaphorical eagles locusts and mother bears to help us see anew confront human violence and raise children who live peacefully on the land.