Song of Songs : a commentary / by Adele Berlin ; edited by Peter Machinist.
2025
BS1485.53 .B47 2025
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Title
Song of Songs : a commentary / by Adele Berlin ; edited by Peter Machinist.
Author
ISBN
9780800699017 (hardback)
0800699017 (hardback)
9798889830979 (electronic bk.)
0800699017 (hardback)
9798889830979 (electronic bk.)
Published
Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2025]
Copyright
©2025
Language
English
Description
xx, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
BS1485.53 .B47 2025
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1482974741
Summary
There is no other book in the Bible like the Song of Songs. It is a highly literate collection of love poems, at times intense with erotic desire and at times playful or flirtatious. This commentary draws out the tone of each poem, along with its language and literary qualities, including its metaphors, allusions, and clever use of words. While there are correspondences between the Song and the literatures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and they are cited in the commentary, the greatest foreign influence on the book comes from Greece. The commentary approaches the Song as a Jewish-Hellenistic work, in the full sense of that hyphenated term. It notes Greek ideas and tropes that appear throughout the book and shows how they have been adjusted and incorporated into Jewish thought and literary forms. The book's Grecisms are dressed in "biblical" idioms and imagery. Going beyond previous studies, this volume emphasizes that the Song's blending together of the Jewish and the Greek is part of its literary virtuosity.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-210) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction to the Song of Songs
1. About the Song of Songs
2. The Speakers in the Song
A. Gendered Discourse
B. Appellations for the Lovers
3. Solomon in the Song
4. Language
5. Literary Features and Techniques
A. On Reading the Song's Metaphors
B. Allusion
C. Body Descriptions
D. The Clever Use of Word Pairs
E. Double Entendres
F. A Term Paired with the Same Term Expanded
6. The Song's Literary Worlds
A. The Song and the Greek World
B. The Song and Jewish Literature
C. The Song and the Literature of Egypt and Mesopotamia
7. Composition and Canonization
A. From Many Songs to One Song
B. The Date of the Book
C. The Formation of the Book Reviewed
D. The Book's Place in the Canon
Commentary
1:1 Superscription
1:2-4 Kisses Sweeter than Wine
1:5-6 I Feel Pretty
1:7-8 Rendezvous in the Pasture
1:9-11 Bejeweled Beauty
1:12-14 The Fragrance of Love
1:15-17 How Beautiful You Are
2:1-3 The Fairest Flower and the Tastiest Tree
2:4-7 A Cure for Lovesickness
2:8-13 Here Comes My Truelove
2:14 Come Out, My Dove
2:15 Foxes in Vineyards
2:16-17 I Belong to You and You Belong to Me
3:1-5 I Sought Him and Found Him
3:6 Who Is This Woman?
3:7-11 Solomon's Bed and King Solomon's Palanquin
4:1-5:1 A Beautiful Woman Is a Garden of Delights
5:2-6:3 I Sought Him, My Handsome Man
6:4-9 The Perfect Beauty
6:10 Who Is This Woman?
6:11-12 The Signs of Spring
7:1-10 The Shulammite
7:11-14 Love Is Abloom in the Blossoming Countryside
8:1-4 If Only You Were My Brother
8:5a Who Is This Woman?
8:5b Under the Apple Tree
8:6-7 Love Is a Cosmic Force
8:8-10 A Little Sister
8:11-12 My Vineyard Is Better than Solomon's
8:13-14 Let Me Hear Your Voice.
1. About the Song of Songs
2. The Speakers in the Song
A. Gendered Discourse
B. Appellations for the Lovers
3. Solomon in the Song
4. Language
5. Literary Features and Techniques
A. On Reading the Song's Metaphors
B. Allusion
C. Body Descriptions
D. The Clever Use of Word Pairs
E. Double Entendres
F. A Term Paired with the Same Term Expanded
6. The Song's Literary Worlds
A. The Song and the Greek World
B. The Song and Jewish Literature
C. The Song and the Literature of Egypt and Mesopotamia
7. Composition and Canonization
A. From Many Songs to One Song
B. The Date of the Book
C. The Formation of the Book Reviewed
D. The Book's Place in the Canon
Commentary
1:1 Superscription
1:2-4 Kisses Sweeter than Wine
1:5-6 I Feel Pretty
1:7-8 Rendezvous in the Pasture
1:9-11 Bejeweled Beauty
1:12-14 The Fragrance of Love
1:15-17 How Beautiful You Are
2:1-3 The Fairest Flower and the Tastiest Tree
2:4-7 A Cure for Lovesickness
2:8-13 Here Comes My Truelove
2:14 Come Out, My Dove
2:15 Foxes in Vineyards
2:16-17 I Belong to You and You Belong to Me
3:1-5 I Sought Him and Found Him
3:6 Who Is This Woman?
3:7-11 Solomon's Bed and King Solomon's Palanquin
4:1-5:1 A Beautiful Woman Is a Garden of Delights
5:2-6:3 I Sought Him, My Handsome Man
6:4-9 The Perfect Beauty
6:10 Who Is This Woman?
6:11-12 The Signs of Spring
7:1-10 The Shulammite
7:11-14 Love Is Abloom in the Blossoming Countryside
8:1-4 If Only You Were My Brother
8:5a Who Is This Woman?
8:5b Under the Apple Tree
8:6-7 Love Is a Cosmic Force
8:8-10 A Little Sister
8:11-12 My Vineyard Is Better than Solomon's
8:13-14 Let Me Hear Your Voice.
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Hermeneia--a critical and historical commentary on the Bible.
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