The song of songs / edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontaine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenner-Idan, Athalya, editor.

Fontaine, Carole R., editor.

Series:

Feminist companion to the Bible ; 2nd ser., 6.

The feminist companion to the Bible (Second series) ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars, including autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray Luis de LTon, who brush pages with Haitian prostitutes. The three sections of this fresh, colourful and adventurous journey into love, sex, allegory and self inside the Most Sublime Song are: Feminist Appropriat

Contents:

CONTENTS; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. FEMINIST APPROPRIATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS? IN GENERAL; Ten Things Every Feminist Should Know About the Song of Songs; A Holy of Holies: The Song of Songs as Countertext; Into Another Scene of Choices: The Theological Value of the Song of Songs; 'My Vineyard, my Very Own, Is for Myself; Part II. SPECIFIC READINGS: ALLEGORIES AND FEMINISTS READINGS; Unlikely Bedfellows: Allegorical and Feminist Readings of Song of Songs 7.1-8; Luis de Leon and the Song of Songs

Go Your Way: Women Rewrite the Scriptures (Song of Songs 2.8-14)Part III. THE SONG OF SONGS, PERSONALIZED; 'My' Song of Songs; The Voice of the Turtle: Now it's MY Song of Songs; 'You Are Beautiful my Love' : The Song of Songs of Women; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 15, 2014).

ISBN:

9786613201300

9781283201308

1283201305

9780567625366

0567625362

OCLC:

745979129