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A vocabulary of desire : the Song of Songs in the early synagogue /

"In A Vocabulary of Desire, Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lieber, Laura Suzanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2014.
©2014
Colección:Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 40.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Essays. 1. "A garden enclosed": the Song of Songs as a gateway to synagogue poetry
  • 2. "Let him kiss me": the place of piyyut in the history of interpretation of the Song
  • 3. "Your voice is sweet": piyyut as an extension of biblical rhetoric
  • 4. "I am my beloved's and his desire is for me": the world of the Songs
  • Part II: Texts and commentary, translator's introduction. 5. A love song to the Torah: anonymous, qedushta Shir ha-Shirim
  • 6. Lyrics of love: Yannai, shivata Shir ha-Shirim
  • 7. Of ritual and reciprocity: Yannai, qedushta Shir ha-Shirim
  • 8. The power of dew: Eleazar Birabbi Qallir, shivata for dew
  • 9. Youthful love is eternal: Eleazar Birabbi Qallir, the groom's qedushta
  • 10. Like stars of light: Eleazar (Birabbi Qallir?), yotzer Shir ha-Shirim.