The song of songs afresh : perspectives on a biblical love poem /
Fischer, Stefan,1966-editor.
Fernandes, Gavin,editor.
This volume is one of the fruits of a six-year series of international conferences on the Song of songs.  The 13 articles here are presented in four categories: classical exegetical studies, post-modern exegetical studies, Jewish studies, and hermeneutics. (adapted from page [4] of cover)
Includes bibliographic references and indexes.
Part I: classic exegetical studies -- Between exegetically appropriate and politically correct: twoards a reponsible interpretation of Song of songs 1.5-6 / Hans Ausloos -- 'Black I am and comely': blackness and whiteness as part of Jewish racial discourses from modern times to antiquity - and where is the place of the Song of songs in all this? / David Biernot -- Shaken from slumber: why Song of songs 5.2-6.3 is not a dream / Gavin Fernandes -- Who are the daughters of Jerusalem? / Stefan Fischer -- Textual interplay: teh Shulammite of Song of songs and Sulamiet by Lina Spies / Christo Lombaard -- Solomon's song 8.6-7: the power of love - how to express it by a coalition of myth and grammar / Hans-Peter Mathys -- Part II postmodern exegetical studies -- Deconstructing horses, in love and war / Francis Landy and Maria Metzler -- Song of songs 8.6-7: death-wish or belief in survival of death? / Pieter van der Zwan -- When the warrior falls in love: the shaping and re-shaping of masculinity in the Song of songs / Danilo Verde -- Part III Jewish studies -- The methods and techniques of the targumic exegesis of the Song of songs / Marek I. Baraniak -- The role of Shir hashirim in Passover piyyutim / Pavla Damohorská -- Part IV hermeneutics -- Contextual consciousness: a basis for responsible exegesis of Song of songs / Marlene Oosthuizen -- Allegorising Song of songs's most erotic parts: Judaism, Calvinism, Lutheranism / Eben Scheffler.
This volume is one of the fruits of a six-year series of international conferences on the Song of songs.  The 13 articles here are presented in four categories: classical exegetical studies, post-modern exegetical studies, Jewish studies, and hermeneutics. (adapted from page [4] of cover)
Bible.
Bible.