A companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality
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A companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality
（Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 98）
Brill, c2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-414) and index
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Description
As one of the most frequently commentated on biblical books during antiquity and the middle ages, the Song of Songs has played a central role in the history of Christian spirituality. At a time of heightened interest in the Song of Songs among biblical scholars, historians, and students of spirituality, this Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality provides a state-of-the art overview of its history, challenges some conventional wisdom, and presents innovative studies of some lesser-known aspects of the Song's reception. 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.
Contributors: Ann W. Astell, Mark S. Burrows, Emily Cain, Catherine Cavadini, Rabia Gregory, Arthur Holder, Jason Kalman, Suzanne LaVere, Hannah Matis, Bernard McGinn, Timothy H. Robinson, and Karl Shuve.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Timothy H. Robinson
1 Mystical Wounds
Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs
Emily R . Cain
2 "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed"
The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity
Karl Shuve
3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages
From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform
Hannah W. Matis
4 The Cistercian Song
Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux's Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs
Catherine Rose Cavadini
5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action
Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages
Suzanne LaVere
6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx's Liturgical Preaching
Ann W. Astell
7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?
Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation
Jason Kalman
8 Women Interpreting the Song of Songs: 1150-1700
Bernard McGinn
9 Abandonment and Abundance in John of the Cross's Spiritual Canticle
The Poet as the Writer of New Scripture
Mark S. Burrows
10 Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in European Art
Rabia Gregory
11 The Banquet of Love
The Song of Songs in Reformed Sacramental Piety: 1586-1729
Timothy H. Robinson
Epilogue
Christian Reception of the Song of Songs since 1800
Arthur Holder
Bibliography
Index
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