Themes of Female Desire and Self-Assertion in the Song of Songs and Hellenistic Poetry

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1. i-vi i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Table of Contents ix
4. Contributors xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction xvii
7. I. Biblical Perspectives
8. The Canonicity of the Song of Songs 1
9. Does the Song of Songs have any connections to wisdom? 8
10. Late Linguistic Features in the Song of Songs 27
11. The Poetic Genius of the Song of Songs 78
12. The Book of Canticles (Song of Songs) in the Dead Sea Scrolls 96
13. II. Comparative Perspectives
14. Searching for a common background: Egyptian love poetry and the Biblical Song of Songs 105
15. Kursorisches zur Konstruktion liebender Körper im pharaonischen Ägypten 136
16. Le Cantique des Cantiques et l'Egypte pharaonique. Etat de la question 150
17. „Kundbarr werde mir deine Sehnsucht ...”. Eros und Liebe im Alten Orient 163
18. Themes of Female Desire and Self-Assertion in the Song of Songs and Hellenistic Poetry 180
19. Jealousy and Desire at Night. Fragmentum Grenfellianum and Song of Songs 206
20. ‘Sweet Talk’. Song of Songs and the Traditions of Greek Poetry 228
21. Zum Werden des Lyrischen. Am Beispiel des Hohenliedes und frühgriechischer Lyrik 245
22. III. Later Perspectives
23. Pigs in the Camps and the Breasts of my Lambs. Song of Songs in the Syriac Tradition 260
24. Middle High German Appropriations of the Song of Songs: Allegorical Interpretation and Narrative Extrapolation 294
25. Lieder der Liebe. Herders Hohelied-Interpretation 317
26. ‘Do not awaken love until it is ready’. George Seferis' Asma Asmaton and the translation of intimacy 338
27. Index 357