Annette Schellenberg

The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. This volume includes twenty-three essays that cover the Song’s reception history from antiquity to the present. They illuminate the richness of this reception history, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts.

Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres

The Song of Songs Through the Ages

Thomas Krüger

"For several decades sociologists and cultural anthropologists have intensively researched the role of the senses in a variety of cultures, and their studies reveal how different cultures understand and evaluate the five or more senses in unique ways. In this collection of eighteen essays, biblical and ancient Near Eastern scholars apply the questions and methods raised by cultural anthropologists to Israel, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Experts offer insights into the meaning of the senses in ancient texts and images, examining the classical senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting) as well as other senses (such as kinethesis and the sense of balance) and sense-related issues (such as disgust, sensory imagination, and disabilities)."--

Sounding Sensory Profiles in the Ancient Near East

Haupts"chlich in weisheitlichen, aber auch in prophetischen und apokalyptischen Schriften des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt ist das Gelingen menschlichen Erkennens nicht mehr selbstverst"ndlich vorausgesetzt, sondern wird als Problem reflektiert. Diese Untersuchung befragt ausgehend vom Buch Qohelet das Alte Testament nach einem problembewussten Umgang mit der Erkenntnisthematik und st" t dabei auf unterschiedlichste Positionen. Zus"tzlich werden die Hiob-Literatur, die theologisierte Weisheit, Gen 2f. und verwandte Texte, Prophetie und Apokalyptik auf ihren jeweiligen Umgang mit der Erkenntnisthematik hin untersucht.

Annette Schellenberg

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