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The Voice of My Beloved - The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Voice of My Beloved - The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the
collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most
enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and
Christians alike have preserved it in the canon of scripture and
used it in liturgy. Exegetes saw it as a central text for
allegorical interpretations, and so the Song of Songs has exerted
an enormous influence on spirituality and mysticism in the Western
tradition. In the Voice of My Beloved, E. Ann Matter focuses on the
most fertile moment of Song of Songs interpretation: the Middle
Ages. At least eighty Latin commentaries on the text survive from
the period. In tracing the evolution of these commentaries, Matter
reveals them to be a vehicle for expressing changing medieval ideas
about the church, the relationship between body and soul, and human
and divine love. She shows that the commentaries constitute a
well-defined genre of medieval Latin literature. And in discussing
the exegesis of the Song of Songs, she takes into account the
modern exegesis of the book and feminist critiques of the theology
embodied in the text.
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