Fallen Animals

The book examines the interpretations, functions and interactions of the Fall - physical, moral, artistic and otherwise - as represented through animals, or through human-animal interactions, in various religious contexts, art, and literature.

Introduction - All Creatures High and Low: Seeing Fallen Animals in Religion and the Arts
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Opening Note - The Snake in the Garden of Eden
Robert A. Segal
"To see what he would name them. . .": Naming and Domination in a Fallen World
Brian Brock
From Ursus Diabolus to Ursus Ex Machina: The Ambivalent Legacy of Biblical Bears in Christian Art and Hagiography
Eric Ziolkowski
Jonah and His Fish: The Monstrification of God's Servant in Early Jewish and Christian Reception History
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
"Who Has the Most Faults?": Animal Sinners in a Late Byzantine Poem
Kirsty Stewart
"The Author Laughed in a Cat's Voice": Aesop and Humanism in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat
Rachel Stenner
Do Monkeys Know about Their Origin? : Narratives of Animals Emerging During Fall in an Islamic Context
Constantin Canavas
Epilogue - We Fall into the Humanimal: A conversation between Kate Walters and Penny Florence
Kate Walters and Penny Florence