Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs

Published by Fordham University Press 2007

Scrolls of Love

Ruth and the Song of Songs

Edited by: Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292547

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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 seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of the methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the collection of essays moves beyond it; alert to contemporary trends, the volume returns venerable interpretive tradition to center stage. Most significantly, it is interfaith. Despite the fact that Jews and Christians share a common text in the Hebrew Scripture, the two communities have read their Bibles in isolation from one another, in ignorance of the richness of the other's traditions of reading. Scrolls of Love brings the two traditions into dialogue, enriching established modes of interpretation with unconventional ones. The result is a volume that sets rabbinic, patristic, and medieval readings alongside feminist, psychoanalytic, and autobiographical ones, combining historical, literary, and textual criticism with a variety of artistic reinterpretations—wood cuts and paper cuts, poetry and fiction. Some of the works are scholarly, with the requisite footnotes to draw readers to further inquiry: others are more reflective than analytic, allowing readers to see what it means to live intimately with Scripture. As a unity, the collection presents Ruth and Song of Songs not only as ancient texts that deserve to be treasured but as old worlds capable of begetting the new.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
PART ONE: READING RUTH
“All That You Say, I Will Do”: A Sermon on the Book of Ruth Ellen F. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Beginning with Ruth: An Essay on Translating Ellen F. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Subverting the Biblical World: Sociology and Politics in the Book of Ruth André LaCocque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
The Book of Ruth as Comedy: Classical and Modern Perspectives Nehama Aschkenasy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
PART TWO: READING RUTH’S READERS
Transfigured Night: Midrashic Readings of the Book of Ruth Judith A. Kates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Dark Ladies and Redemptive Compassion: Ruth and the Messianic Lineage in Judaism Nehemia Polen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Ruth amid the Gentiles Peter S. Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
PART THREE: REIMAGINING RUTH
Ruth Speaks in Yiddish: The Poetry of Rosa Yakubovitsh and Itsik Manger Kathryn Hellerstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Printing the Story: The Bible in Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts Margaret Adams Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
PART FOUR: TRANSLATING AND READING THE SONG OF SONGS
Translating Eros Chana Bloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
“I Am Black and Beautiful” André LaCocque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Reading the Song Iconographically Ellen F. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Unresolved and Unresolvable Problems in Interpreting the Song Marc Brettler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
PART FIVE: READING THE SONG’S READERS
Entering the Holy of Holies: Rabbinic Midrash and the Language of Intimacy Judith A. Kates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Intradivine Romance: The Song of Songs in the Zohar Arthur Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
The Love Song of the Millennium: Medieval Christian Apocalyptic and the Song of Songs E. Ann Matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Monastic Reading and Allegorical Sub/Versions of Desire Mark Burrows Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
The Female Voice: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs Margot Fassler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
The Harlot and the Giant: Dante and the Song of Songs Lino Pertile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
PART SIX: REIMAGINING THE SONG
In the Absence of Love Carey Ellen Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Song? Songs? Whose Song? Reflections of a Radical Reader Carole R. Fontaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Honey and Milk Underneath Your Tongue: Chanting a Promised Land Jacqueline Osherow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
“Where Has Your Beloved Gone?” The Song of Songs in Contemporary Israeli Poetry Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index of Scriptural Citations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Other: 16 Illustrations, black and white

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