The metaphor of marriage in Scripture : essays in honor of Luis Alonso Schökel / edited by Luca Pedroli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pedroli, Luca, editor.

Alonso Schökel, Luis, 1920-1998, honoree.

Roza, Devin, translator.

Series:

Analecta biblica. Studia ; 22.

Analecta biblica studia ; 22

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Marriage in the Bible.

Marriage in the Bible--Congresses.

Metaphor in the Bible.

Metaphor in the Bible--Congresses.

Physical Description:

146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2026.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"This volume presents the Proceedings of the International Conference in honour of Fr Luis Alonso Schökel, SJ, which was held at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of his death (1998) and sixty years since when he began teaching (1957). In memory of his last published book, “Simbolos matrimoniales en la Biblia”, the event was dedicated to the study of the metaphor of marriage in Scripture, inviting some of the leading experts in this area." --Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Preface / Michael Kolarcik

Introduction / Renzo Bonetti

Sources of nuptial symbolism in the prophecy of Israel / Gianantonio Borgonovo

The spousal metaphor in Psalm 45 / Gianni Barbiero

Love, friendship, marriage and sexuality in the Canticle of Canticles: exegetical, anthropological and theological aspects / Ludger Schweinhort-Schonberger

Jesus, the messiah bridegroom: the testimony of the synoptics / Luis Sanchez Navarro

What was Jesus doing at a wedding? Reflections on the Cana story / Harold Attridge

The theory of the Nymphagogos and the emblematic case of Eph 5:25-27 / Luca Pedroli

Postscript / Jean Louis Ska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indices of ancient and contemporary sources.

ISBN:

9042958308

9789042958302

OCLC:

1602830276