Politics, Religion and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England. By Elizabeth Clarke

‘A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved to me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.’ (Song of Songs 1:13, AV.) Erotic prose from a sacred text, such as this, has produced hermeneutical conundrums for commentators across centuries of biblical scholarship. The clergyman and later bishop of Ely, Si...

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Autore principale: Harris, Johanna 1980- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Review
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press 2013
In: Literature and theology
Anno: 2013, Volume: 27, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 382-385
Recensione di:Politics, religion, and the Song of songs in seventeenth-century England (Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (Harris, Johanna)
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Riepilogo:‘A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved to me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.’ (Song of Songs 1:13, AV.) Erotic prose from a sacred text, such as this, has produced hermeneutical conundrums for commentators across centuries of biblical scholarship. The clergyman and later bishop of Ely, Simon Patrick, for instance, seeing the need to situate the lovers in marital fidelity, explaining the verse thus, in 1669: ‘The bosome of all chaste Women is inaccessible to any hand, but that of their Husband.
ISSN:1477-4623
Comprende:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs042