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A summary of Judaism and the environment in a volume on the history of non-western science is a more problematical undertaking than may appear at first glance. Well-informed Jews today debate the issue of defining a Jew. Is identification based on ethnicity, matrilineal descent, a shared sense of history and culture, or adherence to a specific set of religious practices? In the latter case, are all of Judaism’s denominations equally valid? What about secular Jews, such as the majority of the Israeli population today? Orthodox Jews, defined by their fundamentalist belief in the binding obligations of ancient Jewish law (Talmud, halakhah), reject the competing truth-claims of liberal denominations and of Jewish groups like the Falashas of Ethiopia who became geographically isolated before the laws were encoded (Robinson, 2000: 459–450, 474–477).
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Guelke, J.K. (2003). Judaism, Israel, and Natural Resources: Models and Practices. In: Selin, H. (eds) Nature Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5_23
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