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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789505303321

Titolo

The song of songs / / edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontaine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-283-20130-5

9786613201300

0-567-62536-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

The feminist companion to the Bible (Second series) ; ; 6

Disciplina

223.9/06

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. FEMINIST APPROPRIATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS? IN GENERAL; Ten Things Every Feminist Should Know About the Song of Songs; A Holy of Holies: The Song of Songs as Countertext; Into Another Scene of Choices: The Theological Value of the Song of Songs; 'My Vineyard, my Very Own, Is for Myself; Part II. SPECIFIC READINGS: ALLEGORIES AND FEMINISTS READINGS; Unlikely Bedfellows: Allegorical and Feminist Readings of Song of Songs 7.1-8; Luis de Leon and the Song of Songs

Go Your Way: Women Rewrite the Scriptures (Song of Songs 2.8-14)Part III. THE SONG OF SONGS, PERSONALIZED; 'My' Song of Songs; The Voice of the Turtle: Now it's MY Song of Songs; 'You Are Beautiful my Love' : The Song of Songs of Women; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars, including autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray Luis de LTon, who brush pages with Haitian prostitutes. The three sections of this fresh, colourful and adventurous journey into love, sex, allegory and self inside the Most



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