Celebrating the celebration of sexuality in Song of Songs
Today Song of Songs is widely recognised as celebrating human sexual love and not as an allegory for God's love of his people. How this insight is to be appropriated has not yet been accounted for in Christianity, and this article seeks to make a contribution in this regard. Metaphors from cont...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2014, Volume: 23, Pages: 885-909 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Today Song of Songs is widely recognised as celebrating human sexual love and not as an allegory for God's love of his people. How this insight is to be appropriated has not yet been accounted for in Christianity, and this article seeks to make a contribution in this regard. Metaphors from contemporary culture and nature, the geography of the land, the 'absence' of traditional repressive ('superego') religion, and the explicit and tasteful communication of eroticism in the Song are used. It is contended that modern Christianity should learn to speak in such a way about sex. Examples from three modern Afrikaans poems (of which a translation is provided) by Breyten Breytenbach are discussed by way of comparison with Song of Songs. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC174538 |
