Scrolls of love : Ruth and the Song of songs / [print]
Scrolls of love
edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
- New York, New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2006.
- xxiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
PennsylvaniaRT ONE: READING RUTH -- "All that you say, I will do" : a sermon on the book of Ruth Beginning with Ruth : an essay on translating Subverting the biblical world : sociology and politics in the book of Ruth The book of Ruth as comedy : classical and modern perspectives Ellen F. Davis -- Ellen F. Davis -- Andre LaCocque -- Nehama Aschkenasy. PennsylvaniaRT TWO: READING RUTH'S READERS -- Transfigured night : midrashic readings of the book of Ruth Dark ladies and redemptive compassion : Ruth and the messianic lineage in Judaism Ruth amid the gentiles Judith A. Kates -- Nehemia Polen -- Peter S. Hawkins. PennsylvaniaRT THREE: REIMAGINING RUTH -- Ruth speaks in Yiddish : the poetry of Rosa Yakubovitsh and Itsik Manger Printing the story : the Bible in etchings, engravings, and woodcuts Kathryn Hellerstein -- Margaret Adams Parker. PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: TRANSLATING AND READING THE SONG OF SONGS -- Translating eros "I am black and beautiful" / Andre LaCocque -- Reading the song iconographically Unresolved and unresolvable : problems in interpreting the song Chana Bloch -- Ellen F. Davis -- Marc Brettler. PennsylvaniaRT FIVE: READING THE SONG'S READERS -- Entering the holy of holies : rabbinic midrash and the language of intimacy Intradivine romance : the song of songs in the Zohar The love song of the millennium : medieval Christian apocalyptic and the Song of songs Monastic reading and allegorical sub/versions of desire The female voice : Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of songs The harlot and the giant : Dante and the Song of songs Judith A. Kates -- Arthur Green -- E. Ann Matter -- Mark Burrows -- Margot Fassler -- Lino Pertile. PennsylvaniaRT SIX: REIMAGINING THE SONG -- In the absence of love Song? songs? whose song? : reflections of a radical reader Honey and milk underneath your tongue : chanting a promised land "Where has your beloved gone?" : the Song of songs in contemporary Israeli poetry Carey Ellen Walsh -- Carole R. Fontaine -- Jacqueline Osherow -- Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic, it joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of the methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the collection of essays moves beyond it; alert to contemporary trends, the volume returns venerable interpretive tradition to center stage. Most significantly, it is interfaith. Despite the fact that Jews and Christians share a common text in the Hebrew Scripture, the two communities have read their Bibles in isolation from one another, in ignorance of the richness of the other's traditions of reading. Scrolls of Love brings the two traditions into dialogue, enriching established modes of interpretation with unconventional ones. The result is a volume that sets rabbinic, patristic, and medieval readings alongside feminist, psychoanalytic, and autobiographical ones, combining historical, literary, and textual criticism with a variety of artistic reinterpretations-wood cuts and paper cuts, poetry and fiction. Some of the works are scholarly, with the requisite footnotes to draw readers to further inquiry: others are more reflective than analytic, allowing readers to see what it means to live intimately with Scripture. As a unity, the collection presents Ruth and Song of Songs not only as ancient texts that deserve to be treasured but as old worlds capable of begetting the new. https://www.amazon.com/Scrolls-Love-Ruth-Song-Songs-dp-0823225720/dp/0823225720/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1583525728
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Bible.--Ruth--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible.--Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.