Flashes of fire: a literary analysis of the Song of Songs
The unity of the book: song or songs? -- Introduction -- Overview of the research -- Lack of plot -- Uniformity in the book -- Schematic structures of the book -- A proposal for a new direction -- The method -- The individual poems and their categories -- A new proposal for the structure of the book...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
T & T Clark
2009
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Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies (503)
Year: 2009 |
| Reviews: | Review of Assis, Elie, Flashes of Fire: A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs (LHBOTS, 503; London: T&T Clark, 2009). Pp 304. Hardcover. US130.00. ISBN: 978-0-567-02764-1 (2012) (Hess, Richard S., 1954 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies
503 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Song of Songs
/ Literary criticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Commentary
B Bible O.T. Song of Solomon Criticism, interpretation, etc B Bible. Song of Solomon Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | The unity of the book: song or songs? -- Introduction -- Overview of the research -- Lack of plot -- Uniformity in the book -- Schematic structures of the book -- A proposal for a new direction -- The method -- The individual poems and their categories -- A new proposal for the structure of the book -- The superscription (1:1) -- Unit I: (1:2-8): The initial courtship -- Poem 1. 1:2-4 -- Poem 2. 1:5-6 -- Poem 3. 1:7-8 -- Unit II: (1:9 - 2:17): The second courtship -- Poem 1. 1:9-11 and 1:12-14 -- Poem 2. 1:15-2:3 -- Poem 3. 2:4-7 -- Poem 4. 2:8-17 -- Unit III: (3:1 - 5:1) : The climax -- Poem 1. 3:1-5 -- Poem 2. 3:6 -- Poem 3. 3:7-11 -- Poem 4. 4:1-7 -- Poem 5. 4:8-5:1 -- Unit IV: (5:2 - 6:3): The ebbing of love -- Part 1 of the poem. 5:2-8 -- Part 2 of the poem. 5:9-16 -- Part 3 of the poem. 6:1-3 -- Unit V: (6:4 - 8:14): Resolution -- Poem 1. 6:4-10 -- Poem 2. 6:11-12 -- Poem 3. 7:1-10 (6:13-7:9) -- Poem 4. 7:11 (10)-8:5 -- Poem 5. 8:6-7 -- Poem 6. 8:8-10 -- Poem 7. 8:11-12 -- Poem 8. 8:13-14 -- Summary The essence of true love is in the yearning not in the consummation. This literary analysis of the Song of Songs employs the methods of New Criticism. Each analysis aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems and the inner world of the characters. The analysis brings to the fore the highly sophisticated and the original creativity of the love poetry of the Song of Songs. In the introduction, the question is posed as to whether the Song of Songs is an anthology or one literary whole. After discussing the strengths and weakness of the various approaches, the author proposes a novel structure for the Book predicated on the various genres of the love poems. Assis discerns poems of physical description, poems of adoration, and poems of yearning. In addition, he discerns what he takes to be a previously unrecognized genre, poems of rendezvous - a new structure which is based on a psychological understanding of passionate love is now discovered. One of the undisputed dominant features of passionate love is the longing for union with the beloved. Based on this premise, the book is divided into five sections, each of which ends with an attempt to unite or in a union. The structure of the book reflects an emotional and inner development in the psyche of the lovers and in the relationship between them. Throughout the book the interrelationships between the various genres of the love poems, and the development of the characters is spelled out |
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| Item Description: | Literaturvz.: S. 271-279. - Index |
| ISBN: | 0567027643 |