Format:
1 Online-Ressource (178 p)
ISBN:
9783110500882
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9783110498875
Series Statement:
Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion Volume 2
Content:
The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bible’s most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention that merges all of the Song’s voices into the dialogue of a single couple, its composite heroine Shulamit being a projection screen for norms of womanhood. An alternative socio-spatial reading, starting with the Hebrew text’s strophic patterns and its references to historical realia, explores the poem’s artful alternation between courtly, urban, rural, and pastoral scenes with their distinct characters. The literary construction of social difference juxtaposes class-specific patterns of consumption, mobility, emotion, power structures, and gender relations. This new image of the cycle as a detailed poetic frieze of ancient society eventually leads to a precise hypothesis concerning its literary and religious context in the Hellenistic age, as well as its geographical origins in the multiethnic borderland east of the Jordan. In a Jewish echo of anthropological skepticism, the poem emphasizes the plurality and relativity of the human condition while praising the communicative powers of pleasure, fantasy, and multifarious Eros
Note:
Open Access
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Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- 1. Space and Gender in the Song of Songs -- -- 2. A Sociospatial Approach to the Song of Song’s Structure -- -- 3. The Poetics of Social Diversity -- -- 4. Ptolemy IV Philopator and his Religious Policy -- -- 5. Was the Song of Songs Composed in Amman? -- -- 6. Conclusion -- -- Appendix -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index of Biblical References -- -- Index of Names
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110498875
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110500547
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wilke, Carsten, 1962 - Farewell to Shulamit Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017 ISBN 311050054X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110500547
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Bibel Hoheslied
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Sozialgeschichtliche Exegese
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Zeithintergrund
DOI:
10.1515/9783110500882
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http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2018053017405041447312
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Author information:
Wilke, Carsten 1962-
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