My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs

by Jonathan Kaplan and Jonathan Kaplan

Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199359334
• ISBN13: 9780199359332
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"