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Author Baildam, John D

Title Paradisal love : Johann Gottfried Herder and the Song of Songs / John D. Baildam
Published Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages)
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 298
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 298.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 HERDER' S PREOCCUPATION WITH THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 2 HERDER'S APPROACH TO POETRY AND THE BIBLE: ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 3 HERDER AS TRANSLATOR: A THEORETICAL CONTEXT FOR LIEDER DER LlEBE; Chapter 4 HERDER'S RECEPTION OF THE SONG OF SONGS: A COMPARISON WITH OTHER INTERPRETATIVE APPROACHES; Chapter 5 HERDER'S INTERPRETATION OF THE SONG OF SONGS; Chapter 6 HERDER'S TRANSLATIONS OF THE SONG OF SONGS; CONCLUSION; Appendix A: HERDER'S TRANSLATIONS OF THE SONG OF SONGS
Summary This is the first comprehensive study of Herder's preoccupation with the Song of Songs, Baildam considers the importance of this poetry in his thinking, and examines his commentaries and translations of 1776 and 1778. Despite Herder's claims to the contrary, his own cultural position is revealed in his translations, and in his unique interpretation of the work as the voice of pure, paradisal love. Starting with Herder's interest in the Song of Songs between 1765 and 1778, this book sets his reflections in the wider context of his relativistic views on the nature of poetry, contemporary German
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of London), 1994
Bibliography "Bibliography: Johann Gottfried Herder": pages 333-334
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-361)-and indexes
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Subject Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 -- Criticism and interpretation
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 -- Bibliography
SUBJECT Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 fast
Bible. Song of Solomon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Song of Solomon -- Hermeneutics
Bible. Song of Solomon fast
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Hermeneutics
Hooglied (bijbelboek)
Genre/Form Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567436627
0567436624