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Title A companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality / edited by Timothy H. Robinson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

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Series Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; volume 98
Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; volume 98.
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Song of Songs and Its History -- 2 Modern Resistance to the Allegorical Tradition -- 3 Renewed Appreciation for the Pre-modern Song of Songs -- 4 Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality -- Chapter 1 Mystical Wounds: Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Key Authors -- 3 Wounds of Love -- 4 Conclusion
Chapter 2 "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in North Africa -- 3 The Song of Songs and Virginity in Italy -- 4 The Early Latin Commentary Tradition -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages: From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede -- 3 Alcuin and the Carolingians -- 4 The Song of Songs and the Gregorian Reform -- 5 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Cistercian Song: Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux's Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bernard of Clairvaux: Exemplary Abbot and Exegete -- 3 William of St. Thierry: Conversations with a Friend -- 4 Gilbert of Hoyland and John of Ford: Successors -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action: Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages -- Chapter 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx's Liturgical Preaching -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aelred of Rievaulx's Preaching "from" the Song of Songs
3 The Advent of the Lord (Sermons 1, 2, 80, 86) -- 4 The Nativity of the Lord (Sermons 3, 48, 81, 91) -- 5 The Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord (Sermons 50, 110) -- 6 The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord and Purification of Holy Mary (Sermons 5, 32, 51, 101, 102) -- 7 The Annunciation of the Lord (Sermons 9, 57, 59, 60, 118, 119) -- 8 Palm Sunday (Sermons 10, 35) -- 9 Easter (Sermons 12, 121) -- 10 Ascension (Sermons 124, 125) -- 11 Pentecost (Sermons 67, 68, 128) -- 12 The Assumption of Holy Mary (Sermons 20, 45, 73, 74, 153, 154, 156, 157, 167, 168, 169)
13 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sermons 23, 75, 159, 162, 164, 166) -- 14 All Saints (Sermons 26, 76, 77) -- Chapter 7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?: Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation -- 1 Introduction: What Bothered Early Jewish Readers about Song of Songs? -- 2 Targum and Early Midrash -- 3 Song of Songs Rabbah -- 4 Real Men and Women and Song of Songs Rabbah -- 5 The Female Beloved and/as the Community of Israel -- 6 Breast Milk, Torah, and the Nourishing of Israel -- 7 The Male Beloved and/as God
Summary "The essays in this volume including a chapter on Jewish interpretation present the diverse forms of spirituality inspired by the Song since the beginning of the Christian era"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2021)
SUBJECT Bible. Song of Solomon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
Bible. Song of Solomon fast
Subject Spirituality -- Biblical teaching
Spirituality -- Biblical teaching
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, Timothy H., editor
LC no. 2021017580
ISBN 9004209506
9789004209503