A companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality / edited by Timothy H. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, Timothy H., editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; volume 98.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; volume 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Bible. Song of Solomon.

Spirituality--Biblical teaching.

Spirituality.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 The Song of Songs and Its History

2 Modern Resistance to the Allegorical Tradition

3 Renewed Appreciation for the Pre-modern Song of Songs

4 Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality

Chapter 1 Mystical Wounds: Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs

1 Introduction

2 Overview of Key Authors

3 Wounds of Love

4 Conclusion

Chapter 2 "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity

2 The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in North Africa

3 The Song of Songs and Virginity in Italy

4 The Early Latin Commentary Tradition

5 Conclusion

Chapter 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages: From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform

2 Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede

3 Alcuin and the Carolingians

4 The Song of Songs and the Gregorian Reform

5 Conclusion

Chapter 4 The Cistercian Song: Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux's Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs

2 Bernard of Clairvaux: Exemplary Abbot and Exegete

3 William of St. Thierry: Conversations with a Friend

4 Gilbert of Hoyland and John of Ford: Successors

Chapter 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action: Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages

Chapter 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx's Liturgical Preaching

2 Aelred of Rievaulx's Preaching "from" the Song of Songs

3 The Advent of the Lord (Sermons 1, 2, 80, 86)

4 The Nativity of the Lord (Sermons 3, 48, 81, 91)

5 The Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord (Sermons 50, 110)

6 The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and Purification of Holy Mary (Sermons 5, 32, 51, 101, 102)

7 The Annunciation of the Lord (Sermons 9, 57, 59, 60, 118, 119)

8 Palm Sunday (Sermons 10, 35)

9 Easter (Sermons 12, 121)

10 Ascension (Sermons 124, 125)

11 Pentecost (Sermons 67, 68, 128)

12 The Assumption of Holy Mary (Sermons 20, 45, 73, 74, 153, 154, 156, 157, 167, 168, 169)

13 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sermons 23, 75, 159, 162, 164, 166)

14 All Saints (Sermons 26, 76, 77)

Chapter 7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?: Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation

1 Introduction: What Bothered Early Jewish Readers about Song of Songs?

2 Targum and Early Midrash

3 Song of Songs Rabbah

4 Real Men and Women and Song of Songs Rabbah

5 The Female Beloved and/as the Community of Israel

6 Breast Milk, Torah, and the Nourishing of Israel

7 The Male Beloved and/as God

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality

ISBN:

9789004209503

9004209506

Publisher Number:

99988018728

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