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.