Overview

The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall.

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Author:   Elaine T. James ,  Simeon B. Chavel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   212
Weight:   1.044kg
ISBN:  

9789004543928

ISBN 10:   9004543929
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   28 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Song of Songs and Women’s Voices  Elaine James and Simeon Chavel Part 1: The Song of Songs: Literary and Theoretical Approaches 1 The Song of Songs and #MeToo  Critical Reading, Reparative Reading  Elaine James 2 Sex in Public in the Song of Songs  Rhiannon Graybill 3 The Speaker of the Song of Songs and Her Publics  Simeon Chavel 4 Speaking of the Other  Interest and Love in Song 5:2–8  Sarah Zhang Part 2: The Song of Songs in Historical Contexts 5 The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine  F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp 6 Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry  Martti Nissinen 7 Recovering Women from the Scholars (Even from Me)  Deborah Green 8 Singing the Song Anew  Hildegard of Bingen as Interpreter of the Song of Songs  Karl Shuve 9 Women’s Voices and the Cost of Going Public  Song of Songs, Canonization and Safe Spaces  Anna Marsh 10 The Gendering of Sexual Agency  Case Studies from Song of Songs 8:5–14 and an Infamous Indian Trial  Havilah Dharamraj 11 Space and Regulation in the Song of Songs and Contemporary Sexual Politics  Yvonne Sherwood 12 Thinking with Pink  Affective and Sensate Readings of Marc Chagall’s Song of Songs  Fiona Black 13 How to Read the Work of ‘Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things’  Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship and the #MeToo Debate on Cultural Texts of Terror  Karen V. Guth Index

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Elaine T. James, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of An Invitation to Biblical Poetry (2021) and Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place (2017). Simeon B. Chavel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has published on many aspects of biblical literature and the history and ideas of ancient Israel and Judah, including Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah (Mohr Siebeck, 2014).

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