A Feminist Companion to Song of Songs

by Athalya Brenner

The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars, including autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray Luis de LTon, who brush pages with Haitian prostitutes. The three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841270520
• ISBN13: 9781841270524
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"