Perspectives on the Song of Songs / Perspektiven der Hoheliedauslegung / / ed. by Anselm C. Hagedorn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Barton, John,; Burton, Joan B.,; Dell, Katharine J .,; Dobbs-Allsopp, F. W.,; Exum, J. Cheryl,; Flint, Peter W.,; Gaier, Ulrich,; Güthenke, Constanze,; Hagedorn, Anselm C.,; Hecker, Karl,; Hunter, Richard,; Loprieno, Antonio,; Moers, Gerald,; Müller, Hans-Peter,; Münch, Hans-Hubertus,; Salvesen, Alison,; Vernus, Pascal,; Volfing, Annette,
• HerausgeberIn: Hagedorn, Anselm C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 346
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)

An anthology of interdisciplinary essays on the interpretation of the Song of Songs, incorporating exegetical, cultural historical and classical studies to locate the work in its ancient context.

Sammlung interdisziplinärer Aufsätze zur Hoheliedinterpretation aus den Bereichen Exegese, Kulturwissenschaft und Klassische Philologie, die das biblische Buch in seinem Kontext verorten.

Table of Contents

i-vi -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Biblical Perspectives -- The Canonicity of the Song of Songs -- Does the Song of Songs have any connections to wisdom? -- Late Linguistic Features in the Song of Songs -- The Poetic Genius of the Song of Songs -- The Book of Canticles (Song of Songs) in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- II. Comparative Perspectives -- Searching for a common background: Egyptian love poetry and the Biblical Song of Songs -- Kursorisches zur Konstruktion liebender Körper im pharaonischen Ägypten -- Le Cantique des Cantiques et l'Egypte pharaonique. Etat de la question -- „Kundbarr werde mir deine Sehnsucht ...”. Eros und Liebe im Alten Orient -- Themes of Female Desire and Self-Assertion in the Song of Songs and Hellenistic Poetry -- Jealousy and Desire at Night. Fragmentum Grenfellianum and Song of Songs -- ‘Sweet Talk’. Song of Songs and the Traditions of Greek Poetry -- Zum Werden des Lyrischen. Am Beispiel des Hohenliedes und frühgriechischer Lyrik -- III. Later Perspectives -- Pigs in the Camps and the Breasts of my Lambs. Song of Songs in the Syriac Tradition -- Middle High German Appropriations of the Song of Songs: Allegorical Interpretation and Narrative Extrapolation -- Lieder der Liebe. Herders Hohelied-Interpretation -- ‘Do not awaken love until it is ready’. George Seferis' Asma Asmaton and the translation of intimacy -- Index