The Song of Songs: A Feminist Companion to the Bible - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841270520 ISBN 13: 9781841270524

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas.Carole Fontaine is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1841270520
• ISBN 13: 9781841270524
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Brenner-Idan Athalya, Fontaine Carole