Interpretive Images in the Songs of Songs: From Wedding Chariots to Bridal Chambers (Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780820451565
Subjects: Biblical Commentary - General; General; Bible Commentary; Literary Style; Religion; Bible; Bible as literature; Bible.; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Metaphor in the Bible; O.T; O.T.; Song of Solomon
Description: "This book proposes that the Song of Songs contains an inclusio and implicit paradigm of nuptial images representing the ANE bridal chamber, which functions as an interpretive framework for understanding the Song's love poetry. This proposal is based upon the formulation and application of a hybrid literary methodology that incorporates essential elements from both traditional literary approaches and more recent understandings of conceptual metaphor.

The resultant methodology accounts for the uniqueness of the Song's highly metaphorical poetry and supplies a framework for assessing other significant imagery. This newly formulated "poetics" of metaphor effectively overcomes methodological deficiencies in previous literary studies of the Song."--BOOK JACKET.