The song of songs afresh: perspectives on a biblical love poem
Part I: classic exegetical studies --Between exegetically appropriate and politically correct: twoards a reponsible interpretation of Song of songs 1.5-6 /Hans Ausloos --'Black I am and comely': blackness and whiteness as part of Jewish racial discourses from modern times to antiquity - an...
| Summary: | Part I: classic exegetical studies --Between exegetically appropriate and politically correct: twoards a reponsible interpretation of Song of songs 1.5-6 /Hans Ausloos --'Black I am and comely': blackness and whiteness as part of Jewish racial discourses from modern times to antiquity - and where is the place of the Song of songs in all this? /David Biernot --Shaken from slumber: why Song of songs 5.2-6.3 is not a dream /Gavin Fernandes --Who are the daughters of Jerusalem? /Stefan Fischer -- Textual interplay: teh Shulammite of Song of songs and Sulamiet by Lina Spies /Christo Lombaard --Solomon's song 8.6-7: the power of love - how to express it by a coalition of myth and grammar /Hans-Peter Mathys --Part II postmodern exegetical studies --Deconstructing horses, in love and war /Francis Landy and Maria Metzler --Song of songs 8.6-7: death-wish or belief in survival of death? /Pieter van der Zwan --When the warrior falls in love: the shaping and re-shaping of masculinity in the Song of songs /Danilo Verde --Part III Jewish studies --The methods and techniques of the targumic exegesis of the Song of songs /Marek I. Baraniak --The role of Shir hashirim in Passover piyyutim /Pavla Damohorská --Part IV hermeneutics --Contextual consciousness: a basis for responsible exegesis of Song of songs /Marlene Oosthuizen --Allegorising Song of songs's most erotic parts: Judaism, Calvinism, Lutheranism /Eben Scheffler. This volume is one of the fruits of a six-year series of international conferences on the Song of songs. The 13 articles here are presented in four categories: classical exegetical studies, post-modern exegetical studies, Jewish studies, and hermeneutics. (adapted from page [4] of cover) |
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| Item Description: | Contains bibliographic references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1910928577 |