Demonstrates a decolonizing ecological feminist hermeneutics for biblical study informed by the material turn and engagements with literature.

Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.

"Anne Elvey has written a very helpful guide to addressing the crisis of climate change in the context of biblical hermeneutics and feminist scholarship." - The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church

"[T]here is much in the text to stimulate and challenge … I commend Reading with Earth as an important contribution." - Modern Believing