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] ©2007 |
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