Poetry in the Song of songs
Subtitle: a literary analysis
By: Patrick Hunt.
Series: Studies in biblical literature -- v. 96
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781433104657
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Hebrew poetry, Biblical -- History and criticism; Bible as literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence; title: The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine"; title: Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets; title: Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts"; title: The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices; title: Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth; title: The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes"; title: The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms; title: Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards; title: The lovers' transformations : similes; title: The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.