A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue

by Laura S. Lieber

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 Song of Songs, Lieber brings the creative spirit-liturgical, intellectual, and exegetical-of these poems vividly to the fore. All who are interested in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004234632
• ISBN13: 9789004234635
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"