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Origen on the Song of Songs as the spirit of scripture : the bridegroom's perfect marriage-song /

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"Christian exegesis of the Song of Songs has long interacted creatively with - and, more recently, reacted critically against - the allegorical interpretation developed by Origen of Alexandria (c.185-c.254) in his Commentary and two Homilies on the Song of Songs. Interest in Origen's exege...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, J. Christopher
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford theological monographs.
Subjects:
Origen > Criticism and interpretation.
Bible. > Song of Solomon.
Origen
Bible. > Song of Solomon
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Wisdom Literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Origen and the spiritual reading of the Song of songs
  • Origen, the nuptial motif, and the Song of songs
  • Origen's grounds for the wholly spiritual reading of the Song of songs
  • Origen on the hermeneutical unity of the Song of songs
  • Origen on the hermeneutical finality of the Song of songs
  • The Song of songs as the spirit of Scripture.