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  Modern TheologyVolume 22 Issue 4, Pages 555 - 576 Published Online: 26 Sep 2006 Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing
Abstract | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 114K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  SETTING FREE THE MOTHER BIRD: ON READING A STRANGE TEXT Copyright © 2006 The Author; Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Abstract
Deuteronomy 22:6–7 has been used in recent theological discussions of environmental ethics. Earlier traditions of interpretation (Jewish and Christian) suggest the further possibility of reading it as a text about how to read texts and about the nature and function of law. This article examines, and offers a contemporary Christian reappropriation of, these traditions of interpretation. The focus is on how the confrontation with the vulnerable other as a locus of divine revelation interrupts and transforms relations of use and exploitation. It is argued that in a Christian reading of the bird's-nest precept Christ "does what the precept does". | 
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