Scrolls of Love : : Ruth and the Song of Songs / / ed. by Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.

Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic, it joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemi...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 16 Illustrations, black and white
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: READING RUTH
  • “All That You Say, I Will Do”: A Sermon on the Book of Ruth
  • Beginning with Ruth: An Essay on Translating
  • Subverting the Biblical World: Sociology and Politics in the Book of Ruth
  • The Book of Ruth as Comedy: Classical and Modern Perspectives
  • PART TWO: READING RUTH’S READERS
  • Transfigured Night: Midrashic Readings of the Book of Ruth
  • Dark Ladies and Redemptive Compassion: Ruth and the Messianic Lineage in Judaism
  • Ruth amid the Gentiles
  • PART THREE: REIMAGINING RUTH
  • Ruth Speaks in Yiddish: The Poetry of Rosa Yakubovitsh and Itsik Manger
  • Printing the Story: The Bible in Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts
  • PART FOUR: TRANSLATING AND READING THE SONG OF SONGS
  • Translating Eros
  • “I Am Black and Beautiful”
  • Reading the Song Iconographically
  • Unresolved and Unresolvable Problems in Interpreting the Song
  • PART FIVE: READING THE SONG’S READERS
  • Entering the Holy of Holies: Rabbinic Midrash and the Language of Intimacy
  • Intradivine Romance: The Song of Songs in the Zohar
  • The Love Song of the Millennium: Medieval Christian Apocalyptic and the Song of Songs
  • Monastic Reading and Allegorical Sub/Versions of Desire
  • The Female Voice: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs
  • The Harlot and the Giant: Dante and the Song of Songs
  • PART SIX: REIMAGINING THE SONG
  • In the Absence of Love
  • Song? Songs? Whose Song? Reflections of a Radical Reader
  • Honey and Milk Underneath Your Tongue: Chanting a Promised Land
  • “Where Has Your Beloved Gone?” The Song of Songs in Contemporary Israeli Poetry
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Index of Scriptural Citations