The Song of Songs : a feminist companion to the Bible /

The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars, including autobiograp...

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Other Authors: Brenner, Athalya, Fontaine, Carole R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
Series:Feminist companion to the Bible. Second series ; 6.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Ten things every feminist should know about the Song of songs / J. Cheryl Exum
  • A holy of holies : the Song of songs as countertext / Alicia Ostriker
  • Into another scene of choices : the theological value of the Song of songs / Jonneke Bekkenkamp
  • 'My vineyard, my very own, is for myself' / Daphna V. Arbel
  • Unlikely bedfellows : allegorical and feminist readings of Song of songs 7.1-8 / Fiona C. Black
  • Luis de León and the Song of songs / Jane Barr
  • Go your way : women rewrite the scriptures (Song of songs 2.8-14) / Klara Butting
  • 'My' Song of songs / Athalya Brenner
  • The voice of the turtle : now it's MY Song of songs / Carole R. Fontaine
  • 'You are beautiful my love' : the Song of songs of women / Maria Häusl and Ursula Silber.