Lives of Great Religious Books: The Song of Songs: A Biography
Lives of Great Religious Books: The Song of Songs: A Biography
Editor/Author
Pardes, Ilana
Publication Year: 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Single-User Purchase Price:
$47.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$70.50
ISBN: 978-0-69-119424-0
Category: Religion & Theology - Christianity
Image Count:
8
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Song of Songs: A Biography presents an essential history of the greatest love poem ever written.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Draw Me After You, Let Us Run”
- Chapter 1: The Rise of Allegory: From Rabbi Akiva to Origen
- Chapter 2: Poets and Kabbalists: From Medieval Hebrew Poetry to the Zohar
- Chapter 3: Monastic Loves: From Saint Bernard to Santa Teresa
- Chapter 4: Modern Scholars and the Quest for the Literal Song: From J. G. Herder to Phyllis Trible
- Chapter 5: The Song of America: From Walt Whitman to Toni Morrison
- Epilogue: “Flee My Lover and Be Like a Deer or Like a Gazelle on the Spice Mountains”