The Song of Songs : : A Biography / / Ilana Pardes.
An essential biography of the greatest love poem ever writtenThe Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem is strikingly varied. Ilana Pardes invites us to explore the dramatic shift from readings of the S...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
32 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. "Draw Me After You, Let Us Run
- CHAPTER 1. The Rise of Allegory: From Rabbi Akiva to Origen
- CHAPTER 2. Poets and Kabbalists: From Medieval Hebrew Poetry to the Zohar
- CHAPTER 3. Monastic Loves: From Saint Bernard to Santa Teresa
- CHAPTER 4. Modern Scholars and the Quest for the Literal Song: From J. G. Herder to Phyllis Trible
- CHAPTER 5. The Song of America: From Walt Whitman to Toni Morrison
- EPILOGUE. "Flee My Lover and Be Like a Deer or Like a Gazelle on the Spice Mountains"
- Notes
- Index