Farewell to Shulamit : : Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs.

• Superior document: Jewish Thought, Philosophy and Religion Series ; v.2
• Author: Wilke, Carsten.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : De Gruyter, Inc.,, 2017.; Ã2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Thought, Philosophy and Religion Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Space and Gender in the Song of Songs -- Space as Allegory: Premodern Readings -- Space as Scenery: Nineteenth-Century Readings -- Space as Travesty: Twentieth-Century Readings -- Space as Agonizing Metaphor: A Twenty-First Century Trend -- Space as Life-World: Preliminary Considerations for a Pluralistic Reading -- 2. A Sociospatial Approach to the Song of Song's Structure -- The Twenty Idylls -- Evidence from Versification -- Spatial Discontinuity and Formal Cohesion in Song of Songs 1:9-2:7 -- The Four Cycles -- Court (idylls 1, 4, 10, 13, and 15) -- City (idylls 6, 8, 14, 17, and 19) -- Vineyard (idylls 2, 7, 11, 16, and 20) -- Wilderness (idylls 3, 5, 9, 12, and 18) -- The Macrostructure of the Song of Songs -- Ten Speakers in Four Landscapes: The Tetractys Pattern -- Three-Idyll Sequences -- Symmetries inside the Cycles -- Symmetries across the Cycles -- 3. The Poetics of Social Diversity -- Greek Literary and Visual Models -- Production and Consumption -- Geographical Horizons -- Social Gender and the Exchange of Fantasies -- 4. Ptolemy IV Philopator and his Religious Policy -- Women -- Banquets -- Horse Races -- Bacchanals -- Dionysian Politics -- Tattoos -- Negotiating Religion -- 5. Was the Song of Songs Composed in Amman? -- "Jewish Sheikhs" of Transjordan -- One Thousand Cleruchs between Arabia and Judaea -- Warfare in a Love Poem -- A Judaean Garrison and a Greek City -- Peasants, Nomads, and Slaves -- A Skeptical Anthropology -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Images -- Structural Hypothesis for the Song of Songs -- Translation of the Song of Songs -- Bibliography -- Sources, 1: Classics -- Sources, 2: Papyri -- Studies -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Names.