Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION. “Draw Me After You, Let Us Run 1
6. CHAPTER 1. The Rise of Allegory: From Rabbi Akiva to Origen 22
7. CHAPTER 2. Poets and Kabbalists: From Medieval Hebrew Poetry to the Zohar 59
8. CHAPTER 3. Monastic Loves: From Saint Bernard to Santa Teresa 98
9. CHAPTER 4. Modern Scholars and the Quest for the Literal Song: From J. G. Herder to Phyllis Trible 136
10. CHAPTER 5. The Song of America: From Walt Whitman to Toni Morrison 172
11. EPILOGUE. “Flee My Lover and Be Like a Deer or Like a Gazelle on the Spice Mountains” 219
12. Notes 231
13. Index 261