Song of Songs : a close reading /

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Author / Creator:	Barbiero, Gianni, 1944-
Uniform title:	Cantico dei cantici. English
Imprint:	Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 542 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 0083-5889 ; v. 144 Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 144.
Subject:	Bible. -- Song of Solomon -- Commentaries. Bible. -- Song of Solomon. Electronic books. Commentaries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11257369

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Other authors / contributors:	Tait, Michael.
ISBN:	9789004203259 9004203257 9789004203709 9004203702
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-521) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This book puts forward an interpretation of the Canticle which is alert to the literal sense of the poem. The author thus distances himself both from the allegorical interpretation and from an interpretation that is purely secular. According to the author, the Song offers a theological vision of human love. Barbiero sees the Song as composed in the third century BC, in the Hellenistic epoch, but also as hugely dependent on the love poetry of the Ancient Near East, particularly that of Egypt. Above all, however, the Song was composed in dialogue with the other books of the Old Testament, especially in contrast with the negative view of sexuality which they represent. The study pays particular attention to the structure of the poem and of the individual cantos: for Barbiero, the Song is a closely unitary work and is only to be understood as a whole.
Other form:	Print version: Barbiero, Gianni, 1944- Cantico dei cantici. English. Song of songs. Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004203259

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