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Loading... The Song of Songs and the Eros of God: A Study in Biblical Intertextualityby Edmée Kingsmill
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Any of us who are concerned for the integration within ourselves of the erotic and the spiritual will value this book, which is entirely unashamed in declaring the erotic as such within the texts of the Scriptures; Sr Edmée is equally adamant that these texts are not 'carnal' - she will not settle for an evasive 'agapeism' which is embarrassed by sex; she understands, very precisely, that the erotic within us is entirely good. I do not understand this (nor does she claim it) to be at all different from what the great mystics of love, Bernard and the Carmelites chief among them, have said many times before: but it is refreshing to hear this word asserted directly and robustly in the language and scholarship of today, and the book is thrillingly spirited. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Modern biblical scholarship interprets the Song as a collection of love lyrics. For Edm--and--eacute;e Kingsmill, on the contrary, the essence of the Song is mystical. A principal concern of this study, however, is to uncover the relationship between the 117 verses of the Song and those biblical books to which they point. Beneath the metaphors a network of allusions is being woven, conveying a picture opposite to that we find in the prophets who, confronted with the continual 'adultery'of Israel, poured forth their condemnations with unwearying passion. In dramatic contrast, the Song presents No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)223.906Religions Bible Poetic Books Song of Solomon, or CanticlesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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