09/18/2026
What can the Old Testament teach us about ecology and human creativity?
Dr. Elaine T. James, Professor of Old Testament Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, is exploring the question through her latest research on the Bible’s stories of making, materials, and the natural world.
From the Tower of Babel and the tabernacle to music, food, and textiles, James examines what these stories can reveal about human creativity—and how we might think differently about our relationship with the world we inhabit.
Her work offers a thought-provoking question for our own ecological moment: What are humans making of the world?
Learn more about Dr. James’s research and her forthcoming book, The Bible and the Arts of Making, in the latest story from Princeton Theological Seminary: https://bit.ly/46psLhi