Gender in Solomon’s Song of Songs : Discourse Analytical Abduction to a Gynocentric Hypothesis 9781498288729, 9781498288453

The thesis shows that the Song of Songs can be read as a circular sequence of sub-poems, that follow logically from one

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Gender in Solomon’s Song of Songs : Discourse Analytical Abduction to a Gynocentric Hypothesis
9781498288729, 9781498288453

The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism

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

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Job -- Ecclesiastes -- Song of Songs.

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Gersonides (Rabbi Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344), one of medieval Judaism's most interesting figures, was not only a

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This original commentary foregrounds at every turn the poetic genius of the Song of Songs, one of the most elusive texts

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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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This translation of Gersonides' Commentary on 'Song of Songs' brings to English-language readers a work t

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