Name: A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue
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Author: Lieber, Laura S.
ISBN: 9789004234635

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A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue

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Physical Book

Author

Laura S. Lieber

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

462

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.82 kg.

ISBN13

9789004234635

Synopsis "A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue"

In A Vocabulary of Desire, Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the Song of Songs, Lieber brings the creative spirit-liturgical, intellectual, and exegetical-of these poems vividly to the fore. All who are interested in the early interpretation of the Song of Songs, the ancient synagogue, early Jewish and Christian hymnography, and Judaism in Late Antiquity will find this volume both enriching and accessible.The volume consists of two interrelated halves. In the first section, four introductory essays establish the broad cultural context in which these poems emerged; in the second, each chapter consists of an analytical essay structured around a single, complete poetic cycle, presented in new Hebrew editions with annotated original English translations."The Hebrew text edition is accompanied by a lucid and poetic English translation with annotations and a commentary. In this excellent, scholarly text edition, the commentary is focused and to the point...This reviewer highly recommends this monograph to scholars interested in the early synagogue and its liturgy, late antique and medieval Hebrew poetry, rabbinic Judaism, and early Christianity. The book invites further comparative work in these areas." Rivka B. Ulmer, H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. May, 2015.

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