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The Song of Songs Through the Ages

Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres
  • Edited by: Annette Schellenberg
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023
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The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.

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Annette Schellenberg, Vienna University, Austria.

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    The Song of Songs Through the Ages

    1
    Annette Schellenberg
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    Between Hippolytus and Athanasius: The Variety of Patristic Song of Songs’ Interpretations

    11
    Uta Heil
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    “Dripping from the Lips of Sleeping Ones”: The Interpretation of the Song of Songs from Tannaitic Literature to the Palestinian Talmud

    37
    Jonathan Kaplan
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    The Exegesis of all Exegeses: The Uniqueness of Shir HaShirim Rabbah’s Approach to the Song of Songs

    55
    Tamar Kadari
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    “I Slept but My Heart Was Awake”: Rabbinic Interpretations of Song of Songs 5:2

    71
    Gerhard Langer
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    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

    89
    Erik Wade
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    Targum Song of Songs, the History of Israel, and the Study of Torah

    115
    Günter Stemberger
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    Do Not Wake or Arouse Love: Erotics of Time and the Dream of Messianic Waiting

    129
    Elliot R. Wolfson
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    Of Songs and Sequels: The Song of Songs in the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry of Al-Andalus

    145
    Ariel Zinder
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    A Vocabulary of Love: The Song of Songs in the Secular Hebrew Love Poetry from Muslim Spain

    165
    Jonathan Vardi
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    Bernard of Clairvaux: The Song of Songs as an Instruction on the Spiritual Life

    177
    Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger
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    Preaching the Song of Songs at Admont: A Minority Report from the Twelfth Century

    199
    Hannah W. Matis
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    Voices Shifting and Voices Layered: The Song of Songs in Medieval German Commentaries

    213
    Rabea Kohnen
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    An Ecology of Desire: Pierre d’Ailly’s First Theological Work, a Latin Commentary on the Song of Songs

    241
    Christopher Ocker
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    Lovers, Gardens, and Wounds: An Exploration of the Medieval Iconographies of the Song of Songs

    263
    Lieke Smits
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    Singing the Song of Songs in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Evidence of the Alamire Manuscripts

    287
    Stefan Gasch
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    Early Modern Women Comment on the Song of Songs

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    Bernard McGinn
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    Varieties of Reformed and Puritan Reception of the Song of Songs, 1550–1730

    329
    Timothy H. Robinson
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    The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire

    347
    Yael Almog
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    The Song of Songs as a Drama: A Radical Change of Interpretation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

    363
    Elisabeth Birnbaum
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    Love and Language: The Song of Songs in Scholem and Rosenzweig

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    Caroline Sauter
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    “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)

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    Michaela C. Hastetter
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    “I Am Black and Comely”: Literal and/or Allegorical Interpretations in Theology, Music, and Image, Especially in the Present Time

    437
    Ute Jung-Kaiser
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    “The Time of Singing has Come”: The Lure of the Song of Songs for Today’s Composers and Songwriters

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    P. W. Goodman
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    Contributors

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    Index

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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
April 27, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110750799
Hardcover published on:
April 27, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110750669
Paperback published on:
November 4, 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9783111620947
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
7
Main content:
513
Illustrations:
17
Coloured Illustrations:
15
Tables:
2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750799
eBook ISBN: 9783110750799
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110750669
Paperback ISBN: 9783111620947
Keywords for this book
Song of Songs; reception history; allegory; interpretation; spirituality
Audience(s) for this book
Theolog/-innen, Historiker/-innen.
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