The Song of Songs Through the Ages : Essays on the Song's Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schellenberg, Annette.

Series:

Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) Series

Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Song of Songs Through the Ages

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

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Contents:

Intro

Contents

The Song of Songs Through the Ages

Between Hippolytus and Athanasius: The Variety of Patristic Song of Songs' Interpretations

"Dripping from the Lips of Sleeping Ones": The Interpretation of the Song of Songs from Tannaitic Literature to the Palestinian Talmud

The Exegesis of all Exegeses: The Uniqueness of Shir HaShirim Rabbah's Approach to the Song of Songs

"I Slept but My Heart Was Awake": Rabbinic Interpretations of Song of Songs 5:2

Reading the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt with Abbot Hadrian of Africa: The Influence of Byzantine Readings of the Song of Songs on Early Medieval England

Targum Song of Songs, the History of Israel, and the Study of Torah

Do Not Wake or Arouse Love: Erotics of Time and the Dream of Messianic Waiting

Of Songs and Sequels: The Song of Songs in the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry of Al-Andalus

A Vocabulary of Love: The Song of Songs in the Secular Hebrew Love Poetry from Muslim Spain

Bernard of Clairvaux: The Song of Songs as an Instruction on the Spiritual Life

Preaching the Song of Songs at Admont: A Minority Report from the Twelfth Century

Voices Shifting and Voices Layered: The Song of Songs in Medieval German Commentaries

An Ecology of Desire: Pierre d'Ailly's First Theological Work, a Latin Commentary on the Song of Songs

Lovers, Gardens, and Wounds: An Exploration of the Medieval Iconographies of the Song of Songs

Singing the Song of Songs in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Evidence of the Alamire Manuscripts

Early Modern Women Comment on the Song of Songs

Varieties of Reformed and Puritan Reception of the Song of Songs, 1550-1730

The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire

The Song of Songs as a Drama: A Radical Change of Interpretation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century.

Love and Language: The Song of Songs in Scholem and Rosenzweig

"Black and Beautiful" (Song 1:5): A Key Verse in the Exegesis of the Song of Songs from Origen to Dieter Salbert's Schwarz-wie die Teppiche Salomos (1971)

"I Am Black and Comely": Literal and/or Allegorical Interpretations in Theology, Music, and Image, Especially in the Present Time

"The Time of Singing has Come": The Lure of the Song of Songs for Today's Composers and Songwriters

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110750799

3110750791

OCLC:

1376934415