Taming the Beast: Human-Animal Encounters in the Bible

Discover a compelling exploration of humanity's role as the Bible's supreme predator—the only species God describes as “prone to evil from youth” and notably not as “the Crown of Creation.” Yet humans continue—today as in biblical times—to project their own unparalleled capacity for violence onto predatory animals.



Taming the Beast illustrates how the Bible seeks to restrain and redirect these human destructive tendencies, even as it highlights the collateral suffering that biblical anima...