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A companion to the song of songs in the history of spirituality
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- Summary
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"The essays in this volume including a chapter on Jewish interpretation present the diverse forms of spirituality inspired by the Song since the beginning of the Christian era"--
Details
- Creator
- edited by Timothy H. Robinson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (433 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789004209503, 9004209506, 9004387021
- OCLC
- on1251740222
- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Song of Songs and Its History -- 2 Modern Resistance to the Allegorical Tradition -- 3 Renewed Appreciation for the Pre-modern Song of Songs -- 4 Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality -- Chapter 1 Mystical Wounds: Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Key Authors -- 3 Wounds of Love -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in North Africa -- 3 The Song of Songs and Virginity in Italy -- 4 The Early Latin Commentary Tradition -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages: From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede -- 3 Alcuin and the Carolingians -- 4 The Song of Songs and the Gregorian Reform -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Cistercian Song: Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux's Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bernard of Clairvaux: Exemplary Abbot and Exegete -- 3 William of St. Thierry: Conversations with a Friend -- 4 Gilbert of Hoyland and John of Ford: Successors -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action: Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages -- Chapter 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx's Liturgical Preaching -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aelred of Rievaulx's Preaching "from" the Song of Songs -- 3 The Advent of the Lord (Sermons 1, 2, 80, 86) -- 4 The Nativity of the Lord (Sermons 3, 48, 81, 91) -- 5 The Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord (Sermons 50, 110)
- 6 The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and Purification of Holy Mary (Sermons 5, 32, 51, 101, 102) -- 7 The Annunciation of the Lord (Sermons 9, 57, 59, 60, 118, 119) -- 8 Palm Sunday (Sermons 10, 35) -- 9 Easter (Sermons 12, 121) -- 10 Ascension (Sermons 124, 125) -- 11 Pentecost (Sermons 67, 68, 128) -- 12 The Assumption of Holy Mary (Sermons 20, 45, 73, 74, 153, 154, 156, 157, 167, 168, 169) -- 13 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sermons 23, 75, 159, 162, 164, 166) -- 14 All Saints (Sermons 26, 76, 77) -- Chapter 7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?: Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation -- 1 Introduction: What Bothered Early Jewish Readers about Song of Songs? -- 2 Targum and Early Midrash -- 3 Song of Songs Rabbah -- 4 Real Men and Women and Song of Songs Rabbah -- 5 The Female Beloved and/as the Community of Israel -- 6 Breast Milk, Torah, and the Nourishing of Israel -- 7 The Male Beloved and/as God -- 8 Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs -- 8.1 The Northern French Peshat School -- 8.2 The Spanish School: Abraham Ibn Ezra -- 8.3 Karaite Exegesis -- 8.4 Philosophical Allegory -- 8.5 Early Kabbalah-Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Women Interpreting the Song of Songs: 1150-1700 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Women Mystics Read the Song of Songs: 1150-1550 -- 3 Women Commenting on the Song of Songs: 1550-1700 -- Chapter 9 Abandonment and Abundance in John of the Cross's Spiritual Canticle: The Poet as the Writer of New Scripture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Abandonment and Longing -- 3 A Poetics of Love -- 4 Abundance and the Impotence of Language -- 5 Penetrating beyond Explanations -- 6 A Poetics of the Silent Word -- Chapter 10 Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in European Art -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Song of Songs and the Materiality of Religion
- 3 Literal Representations of the Song of Songs -- 4 Allusions to the Song of Songs in Devotional Art -- 5 Innovative Allegories -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 The Banquet of Love: The Song of Songs in Reformed Sacramental Piety: 1586-1729 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Varieties of Reformed Commentary on the Song of Songs -- 3 Themes in Eucharistic Piety -- 4 Conclusion -- Epilogue: Christian Reception of the Song of Songs since 1800 -- 1 Historical-Critical Readings of the Song as a Celebration of Human Love -- 2 The Persistence of Allegorical Interpretation -- 3 Approaches Focusing on the Positionality of the Reader -- 4 Reading the Song in Interreligious Contexts -- 5 The Song in Literature, Art, Music, and Film -- 6 Liturgy and Worship -- 7 The Song's Enduring Appeal -- Bibliography -- Ancient and Medieval Authors -- Modern Authors -- Musical Compositions -- Index