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A Feminist Companion to Song of Songs

Athalya Brenner-Idan editor Carole Fontaine editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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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 autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray Luis de LTon, who brush pages with Haitian prostitutes. The three sections of this fresh, colourful and adventurous journey into love, sex, allegory and self inside the Most Sublime Song are: Feminist Appropriations; Specific Readings: Allegories and Feminists; and The Song of Songs Personalized.

ISBN: 9781841270524

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 340g

216 pages