Prof. Rebecca Copeland featured in BU Brink story on Bible’s Agricultural Connections
The following is an excerpt from The Brink article “Brink Bites: Prescribing Cheaper Energy Bills and the Bible’s Agricultural Connections” by Andrew Thurston, featuring Associate Professor of Theology Rebecca Copeland, published on July 2, 2025.
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What can ancient farming techniques teach us about the Bible? How did Gospel writers’ relationships with the land and environment shape their parables? These are questions Rebecca Copeland, a BU School of Theology associate professor of theology, will explore in a forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Replanting the Uprooted: A Social-Ecological Approach to the Agricultural Parables. An expert on the connections between theology and ecology, Copeland has been awarded a Louisville Institute Grant for Researchers to support her work on the book.
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