The Song of Songs Through the Ages: Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Song of Songs Through the Ages

Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres

Edited by: Annette Schellenberg

Volume 8 in the series Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750799

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About this book

The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.

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Annette Schellenberg, Vienna University, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The Song of Songs Through the Ages Annette Schellenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Between Hippolytus and Athanasius: The Variety of Patristic Song of Songs’ Interpretations Uta Heil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
“Dripping from the Lips of Sleeping Ones”: The Interpretation of the Song of Songs from Tannaitic Literature to the Palestinian Talmud Jonathan Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
The Exegesis of all Exegeses: The Uniqueness of Shir HaShirim Rabbah’s Approach to the Song of Songs Tamar Kadari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
“I Slept but My Heart Was Awake”: Rabbinic Interpretations of Song of Songs 5:2 Gerhard Langer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Reading the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt with Abbot Hadrian of Africa: The Influence of Byzantine Readings of the Song of Songs on Early Medieval England Erik Wade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Targum Song of Songs, the History of Israel, and the Study of Torah Günter Stemberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Do Not Wake or Arouse Love: Erotics of Time and the Dream of Messianic Waiting Elliot R. Wolfson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Of Songs and Sequels: The Song of Songs in the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry of Al-Andalus Ariel Zinder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
A Vocabulary of Love: The Song of Songs in the Secular Hebrew Love Poetry from Muslim Spain Jonathan Vardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Bernard of Clairvaux: The Song of Songs as an Instruction on the Spiritual Life Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Preaching the Song of Songs at Admont: A Minority Report from the Twelfth Century Hannah W. Matis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Voices Shifting and Voices Layered: The Song of Songs in Medieval German Commentaries Rabea Kohnen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
An Ecology of Desire: Pierre d’Ailly’s First Theological Work, a Latin Commentary on the Song of Songs Christopher Ocker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Lovers, Gardens, and Wounds: An Exploration of the Medieval Iconographies of the Song of Songs Lieke Smits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Singing the Song of Songs in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Evidence of the Alamire Manuscripts Stefan Gasch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Early Modern Women Comment on the Song of Songs Bernard McGinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Varieties of Reformed and Puritan Reception of the Song of Songs, 1550–1730 Timothy H. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire Yael Almog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
The Song of Songs as a Drama: A Radical Change of Interpretation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Elisabeth Birnbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Love and Language: The Song of Songs in Scholem and Rosenzweig Caroline Sauter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
“Black and Beautiful” (Song 1:5): A Key Verse in the Exegesis of the Song of Songs from Origen to Dieter Salbert’s Schwarz—wie die Teppiche Salomos (1971) Michaela C. Hastetter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
“I Am Black and Comely”: Literal and/or Allegorical Interpretations in Theology, Music, and Image, Especially in the Present Time Ute Jung-Kaiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
“The Time of Singing has Come”: The Lure of the Song of Songs for Today’s Composers and Songwriters P. W. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theolog/-innen, Historiker/-innen.
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 513
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Coloured Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 2
Keywords: Song of Songs; reception history; allegory; interpretation; spirituality

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110750799

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783110750669