The Voice of My Beloved : : The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity / / E. Ann Matter.
The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and Christians alike have preserved it in the canon of scripture and used it in liturgy. Exegetes saw it as a cent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) :; 7 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- The Vulgate Text of the Song of Songs
- Chapter One. Introduction to the Genre
- Chapter Two. Hidden Origins: The Legacy of Alexandria
- Chapter Three. The Key to the Code: Allegory and the Song of Songs
- Chapter Four. The Song of Songs as the Changing Portrait of the Church
- Chapter Five. The Marriage of the Soul
- Chapter Six. The Woman Who is the All: The Virgin Mary and the Song of Songs
- Chapter Seven. The Genre as Trope: The Song of Songs in Vernacular Literature
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Latin Commentary on the Song of Songs to 1200
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Modern Scholars
- General Index