LEADER 03451oam 22005534a 450 001 9910155112203321 005 20230616171717.0 010 $a9781575064765 010 $a1575064766 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575064765 035 $a(CKB)3710000000973100 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772174 035 $a(DLC) 2016027813 035 $a(DE-B1597)584508 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575064765 035 $a(OCoLC)951778734 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80868 035 $a(Perlego)2058564 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000973100 100 $a20160614d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aI, You, and the Word ?God?$eFinding Meaning in the Song of Songs /$fSarah Zhang 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ[2016] 215 $a1 online resource (195 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSiphrut : literature and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures ;$v20 311 08$a9781575064758 311 08$a1575064758 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aTitle; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Theory; Chapter 2: Oneself as Awakened Sensibility (Song 4:1-7); Chapter 3: Restlessness and Responsibility for the Other; Chapter 4: "The Human Form Divine"; So to Speak; Bibliography; Index of Authors; Index of Scripture. 330 $a"I, You, and the Word "God" introduces the approach of lyrical ethics, inspired by Emmanuel Levinas's ethical-phenomenological philosophy. Through the optics of lyrical ethics, the reader discovers how the ancient erotic poems of the Song of Songs bear ethical and theological significance for contemporary readers. Levinas's intertwined concepts--oneself qua sensibility, otherness perceived through responsibility, and transcendence embodied in one's love for the other--reveal themselves as lyrical colors woven into the fabric of Song 4:1-7, 5:2-8, and 8:6. More importantly, Levinas's understanding that poetic language breaks the tautology of logocentric discourse and gestures to the outside of consciousness provides the theoretical ground for the listener to solicit meaningfulness from the Song. Through this lyrical reading of the selected poetic units, the book demonstrates that the traditional interpretive methods of representative description, narrative paraphrase, and thematic distillation fail to encounter the otherness of poetry. In contrast, lyrical ethics pays attention to that which transcends consciousness: the awakening of the reader's subjectivity, the saying underlying the said, the sound of the sense, and the invisibility of the visible. The Song so caressed reveals in human love the purposelessly purposive encounter with God"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aSiphrut ;$v20. 606 $aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xWisdom Literature$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament$2bisacsh 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 7$aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xWisdom Literature. 615 7$aRELIGION$xBiblical Studies$xOld Testament. 676 $a223/.906 700 $aZhang$b Sarah$01070767 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155112203321 996 $aI, You, and the Word ?God?$92564949 997 $aUNINA