Ravens and Doves – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates

In the face of present-day environmental catastrophe and social
injustice, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates examine opposing
narratives of survival in the story of Noah’s Ark, exemplified in
the dove and the raven. While one symbolizes an exclusionary new
world with a finite narrative arc and an inevitable conclusion, the
other embodies the unexpected and unscripted—a widened refuge open
to all. The contrasting fate of the birds prompts these two
medieval scholars to consider how we will respond when our own
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