Farewell to Shulamit : Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter, Inc.,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Jewish Thought, Philosophy and Religion Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Space and Gender in the Song of Songs
- Space as Allegory: Premodern Readings
- Space as Scenery: Nineteenth-Century Readings
- Space as Travesty: Twentieth-Century Readings
- Space as Agonizing Metaphor: A Twenty-First Century Trend
- Space as Life-World: Preliminary Considerations for a Pluralistic Reading
- 2. A Sociospatial Approach to the Song of Song's Structure
- The Twenty Idylls
- Evidence from Versification
- Spatial Discontinuity and Formal Cohesion in Song of Songs 1:9-2:7
- The Four Cycles
- Court (idylls 1, 4, 10, 13, and 15)
- City (idylls 6, 8, 14, 17, and 19)
- Vineyard (idylls 2, 7, 11, 16, and 20)
- Wilderness (idylls 3, 5, 9, 12, and 18)
- The Macrostructure of the Song of Songs
- Ten Speakers in Four Landscapes: The Tetractys Pattern
- Three-Idyll Sequences
- Symmetries inside the Cycles
- Symmetries across the Cycles
- 3. The Poetics of Social Diversity
- Greek Literary and Visual Models
- Production and Consumption
- Geographical Horizons
- Social Gender and the Exchange of Fantasies
- 4. Ptolemy IV Philopator and his Religious Policy
- Women
- Banquets
- Horse Races
- Bacchanals
- Dionysian Politics
- Tattoos
- Negotiating Religion
- 5. Was the Song of Songs Composed in Amman?
- "Jewish Sheikhs" of Transjordan
- One Thousand Cleruchs between Arabia and Judaea
- Warfare in a Love Poem
- A Judaean Garrison and a Greek City
- Peasants, Nomads, and Slaves
- A Skeptical Anthropology
- 6. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Images
- Structural Hypothesis for the Song of Songs
- Translation of the Song of Songs
- Bibliography
- Sources, 1: Classics
- Sources, 2: Papyri
- Studies
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Names.