From Wild Beast to Huntress: Animal Imagery, Beauty, and Seduction in the Song of Songs and Proverbs

This article investigates the bestiary used to represent the dynamics of attraction and seduction in the Song of Songs and the book of Proverbs. It examines mainly the predatory imagery, focusing on the lions and leopards the female lover associates with, in Song 4:8, as well as the “hunting ground”...

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Главный автор: Létourneau, Anne (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Brill 2023
В: Biblical interpretation
Год: 2023, Том: 31, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 67-93
Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности):B Bibel. Hoheslied / Bibel. Hoheslied 4,8 / Bibel. Sprichwörter / Bibel. Sprichwörter 6,26 / Bibel. Sprichwörter 7 / Красота / Соблазн (мотив) / Животные (мотив) (Мотив) / Хищные (Мотив) / Метафора / Образная речь / Феминистическая экзегеза
Индексация IxTheo:FD Контекстуальное богословие
HB Ветхий Завет
Другие ключевые слова:B Seduction
B Animal
B Predation
B Proverbs
B Gender
B non-human
B Song of Songs
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Итог:This article investigates the bestiary used to represent the dynamics of attraction and seduction in the Song of Songs and the book of Proverbs. It examines mainly the predatory imagery, focusing on the lions and leopards the female lover associates with, in Song 4:8, as well as the “hunting ground” terminology used to characterize some of the strange women’s behaviors in Prov. 6:26; 7:22–23. Following Arbel (2015) and Imray (2013), the article contends that the female lover of Song of Songs and the strange women are not so different. Through a close philological examination of the passages staging these women, it sets out to decompartmentalize our understanding of what is an appropriate—or threatening—display of feminine charms and seductive strategies in the Hebrew Bible. This exegetical inquiry also brings the super/non-human persona of these women into focus.
ISSN:1568-5152
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685152-20211613