Scrolls of Love : Ruth and the Song of Songs / ed. by Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
Aschkenasy, Nehama, contributor.; Bloch, Chana, contributor.; Brettler, Marc, contributor.; Burrows, Mark, contributor.; Cushing Stahlberg, Lesleigh, editor.; Davis, Ellen F., contributor.; Fassler, Margot, contributor.; Fontaine, Carole R., contributor.; Green, Arthur, contributor.; Hawkins, Peter S., contributor.; Hawkins, Peter S., editor.; Hellerstein, Kathryn, contributor.; Kates, Judith A., contributor.; LaCocque, André, contributor.; Matter, E. Ann, contributor.; Osherow, Jacqueline, contributor.; Parker, Margaret Adams, contributor.; Pertile, Lino, contributor.; Polen, Nehemia, contributor.; Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing, contributor.; Walsh, Carey Ellen, contributor.
2022
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Title Scrolls of Love : Ruth and the Song of Songs / ed. by Peter S. Hawkins, Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
ISBN 9780823292547
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292547
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (408 p.) : 16 Illustrations, black and white
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823292547 doi
Summary Scrolls of Love is a book of unions. Edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic, it joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of the methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the collection of essays moves beyond it; alert to contemporary trends, the volume returns venerable interpretive tradition to center stage. Most significantly, it is interfaith. Despite the fact that Jews and Christians share a common text in the Hebrew Scripture, the two communities have read their Bibles in isolation from one another, in ignorance of the richness of the other's traditions of reading. Scrolls of Love brings the two traditions into dialogue, enriching established modes of interpretation with unconventional ones. The result is a volume that sets rabbinic, patristic, and medieval readings alongside feminist, psychoanalytic, and autobiographical ones, combining historical, literary, and textual criticism with a variety of artistic reinterpretations-wood cuts and paper cuts, poetry and fiction. Some of the works are scholarly, with the requisite footnotes to draw readers to further inquiry: others are more reflective than analytic, allowing readers to see what it means to live intimately with Scripture. As a unity, the collection presents Ruth and Song of Songs not only as ancient texts that deserve to be treasured but as old worlds capable of begetting the new.
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Added Author Aschkenasy, Nehama, contributor.
Bloch, Chana, contributor.
Brettler, Marc, contributor.
Burrows, Mark, contributor.
Cushing Stahlberg, Lesleigh, editor.
Davis, Ellen F., contributor.
Fassler, Margot, contributor.
Fontaine, Carole R., contributor.
Green, Arthur, contributor.
Hawkins, Peter S., contributor.
Hawkins, Peter S., editor.
Hellerstein, Kathryn, contributor.
Kates, Judith A., contributor.
LaCocque, André, contributor.
Matter, E. Ann, contributor.
Osherow, Jacqueline, contributor.
Parker, Margaret Adams, contributor.
Pertile, Lino, contributor.
Polen, Nehemia, contributor.
Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing, contributor.
Walsh, Carey Ellen, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART ONE: READING RUTH
"All That You Say, I Will Do": A Sermon on the Book of Ruth
Beginning with Ruth: An Essay on Translating
Subverting the Biblical World: Sociology and Politics in the Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth as Comedy: Classical and Modern Perspectives
PART TWO: READING RUTH'S READERS
Transfigured Night: Midrashic Readings of the Book of Ruth
Dark Ladies and Redemptive Compassion: Ruth and the Messianic Lineage in Judaism
Ruth amid the Gentiles
PART THREE: REIMAGINING RUTH
Ruth Speaks in Yiddish: The Poetry of Rosa Yakubovitsh and Itsik Manger
Printing the Story: The Bible in Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts
PART FOUR: TRANSLATING AND READING THE SONG OF SONGS
Translating Eros
"I Am Black and Beautiful"
Reading the Song Iconographically
Unresolved and Unresolvable Problems in Interpreting the Song
PART FIVE: READING THE SONG'S READERS
Entering the Holy of Holies: Rabbinic Midrash and the Language of Intimacy
Intradivine Romance: The Song of Songs in the Zohar
The Love Song of the Millennium: Medieval Christian Apocalyptic and the Song of Songs
Monastic Reading and Allegorical Sub/Versions of Desire
The Female Voice: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs
The Harlot and the Giant: Dante and the Song of Songs
PART SIX: REIMAGINING THE SONG
In the Absence of Love
Song? Songs? Whose Song? Reflections of a Radical Reader
Honey and Milk Underneath Your Tongue: Chanting a Promised Land
"Where Has Your Beloved Gone?" The Song of Songs in Contemporary Israeli Poetry
Notes
Contributors
Index
Index of Scriptural Citations

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