Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of the Song of Songs 1608996344, 9781608996346

Scan any Old Testament Theology for its entry concerning the Song of Songs and you are likely to put the book down and w

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Contributions of Selected Rhetorical Devices to a Biblical Theology of the Song of Songs
1608996344, 9781608996346

This book takes the reader on a tour of popular understandings throughout history of the most erotic part of the Bible:

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Roland E. Murphy offers a representative sounding in the major periods of the Song's exegetical history. Attention

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A profound mystic, Bernard sought, above all and in all, to be with God and to bring all persons to the experience of Go

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A profound mystic, Bernard sought, above all and in all, to be with God and to bring all persons to the experience of Go

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In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, The Song of Songs was a favorite book of Cistercian monks. Bernard of Cla

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Modern biblical scholarship interprets the Song as a collection of love lyrics. For Edmée Kingsmill, on the contrary, th

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Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible an

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The Hebrew Bible is religious literature, the fundamental interest of which lies in the relations between humankind, esp

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