The Song of Songs : a biography /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Lives of great religious books.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Draw Me After You, Let Us Run"; Chapter 1: The Rise of Allegory: From Rabbi Akiva to Origen; Chapter 2: Poets and Kabbalists: From Medieval Hebrew Poetry to the Zohar; Chapter 3: Monastic Loves: From Saint Bernard to Santa Teresa; Chapter 4: Modern Scholars and the Quest for the Literal Song: From J. G. Herder to Phyllis Trible; Chapter 5: The Song of America: From Walt Whitman to Toni Morrison
- Epilogue: "Flee My Lover and Be Like a Deer or Like a Gazelle on the Spice Mountains"Notes; Index