... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The unmarried status of the lovers in the Song of Songs stands out against the expected cultural norms of an ancient Israelite society and of other more conservative biblical...

... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The concept of human sexual love as an image of the love of God, derived from both Jewish and Christian allegorised interpretations of the Song of Songs, has been a significant...

... thesis. ²⁸ By exploring how their animal poetry is able to problematise and play with human–animal distinctions, the animal imagery in the Song of Songs too might be drawn into focus and examined more carefully, revealing its animals not merely as ciphers or stereotypes, but as expressive...

... and poetics, but it gains a Christian interpretation, either as a metaphor for the cultivation of the soul or as an earthly image of the Garden of Eden or Heavenly Paradise. gardens genre gender hortus conclusus Song of Songs Eden Christianity late antiquity This study has attempted to show that garden...

..., the counterpoint to the traditional Job. Three of Job’s friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, were also seen in a similar perspective. The poet does not wish the reader to simply focus on Job but to look at the nature of God too. The chapter also discusses the Song of Songs to further understand the approach...

... traces his theory of the progressive ascent of the soul in his allegorical interpretation of the Exodus in his Homilies on Numbers and the union of the Bride and Bridegroom in his commentaries and homilies on the Song of Songs. The stages of the Exodus correspond to the stages of the soul's purification...

...At the center of the Song of Songs is a description of a garden. While scholars have focused exclusively on the garden as a metaphor for the young woman’s sexuality, this chapter suggests that the poem itself is more reticent, and focuses the reader’s attention on the garden as an art form...

...Chapter 1 examines how the interpretation of Song of Songs in the tannaitic midrashim should be characterized—as an allegory, as a mashal(rabbinic parable), or as something entirely different. To frame this exploration, it first examines the various approaches to early rabbinic...

...Chapter 3 examines how the tannaitic midrashim painted an idealized picture of Israel and her practices and piety through the descriptions of the female protagonist’s appearance in Song of Songs. In particular, it focuses on the interpretations of the longer descriptive songs, or waṣfs...

...Chapter 4 continues the examination of tannaitic interpretation of descriptive language in Song of Songs (begun in Chapter 3), focusing on the portrayals of the male beloved. In their reading of these passages and Song 5:10–16, in particular, the interpretations of the Tannaim highlight God’s...

..., at times imitating the prosodic simplicity of the Sternhold and Hopkins metrical psalms, elsewhere adapting the sophisticated stanzaic variety of the Marot/Beze Psalter. Women like Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Southwell used the Song of Songs to express their devotion to Christ. The ‘mystical marriage...

... M.p.th.q. 26, an eighth-century codex from the Kitzingen library collection containing a sophisticated “Veri Amoris” libellus whose scribe-author benefited from a feminist transmission network. She forged together an abridged cento of Apponius’s commentary on the Song of Songs, Jerome’s vita Malchi...

... Dell'Antonio Andrew Islam Judaism Luther Martin Mary Magdalene mysticism Song of Songs Teresa Saint Walser Robert Bernard of Clairvaux bodies madrigal Gesualdo Carlo Michelangelo John of the Cross Saint tonality colonial expansion Ferdinand King Isabella Queen Madonna Ciccone Wilde Oscar...

...In vivid contrast to the prophetic writings, in which eros is employed only in condemnation, the Song of Songs affirms, even revels in, sensual life. In fact, the Song's eroticism is deliberately subversive in its challenge to the institutions of the Hellenistic era, the probable time of its...

...Along with other texts of wisdom literature, the Song of Songs is largely neglected in Protestant churches, especially conservative ones, in favor of primary focus on the Hebrew prophets. The prophetic teachings on economics and rich-poor relations seem to be steadily ignored by most churches...

...This chapter argues that the Song of Songs is best understood as lyric poetry and not as dramatic or narrative poetry, even though it does not entirely fit the category of lyric as it is traditionally defined and, moreover, contains both dramatic and narrative elements. Given that the last twenty...

... perceived the dangers posed by the “terrible Had Gadya machine” that threatens to grind individual souls into the dust of history. Revisiting both the Akeda and the Song of Songs, Amichai reintroduced love and compassion into these ancient stories, along with a dire warning about the incendiary power...

...This chapter focuses on Netsiv's engagement with Maimonides in his commentary on the Song of Songs as the quintessential biblical book of love. It talks about Netsiv's theological positions and offers a convenient compendium of his thought. It also analyses how the Song of Songs presents...

... to guide his readers through a subjective process of reading and interpreting the Song of Songs by which the objective reality of human transformation and union with God becomes for them a subjective reality. Therefore, this chapter focuses on Gregory’s depiction of the unified activity of Christ...

... in Western culture by the Solomon Song of Songs, a biblical poem that King Alfonso translated into Spanish in General estoria, and followed by the literary production of the mystic Ramon Llull and other medieval accounts. The Wise King wrote two more cantigas (251 and 353...