Poetry In The Song Of Songs

Author : Elaine T. James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190619039

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs by Elaine T. James Pdf

In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying interest in the natural world. Engaging with the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature, James critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy between "nature" and "culture" and instead argues that the poetic attention to landscape indicates an awareness of a viewer. Nature is here a poetic device that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, cities, social control, and feminism and the gaze in the Song. With this two-fold emphasis on landscape and lyric, Landscape of the Song of Songs shows how the Song persistently envisions a world in which human lovers are embedded in the natural world, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

Author : Kwame Dawes
Publisher : Bobcat Books
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857128386

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Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius by Kwame Dawes Pdf

The quintessential folk poet of the Third World, Bob Marley influenced generations of musicians and writers. He was a performer who held true to his religious and cultural heritage, who rallied against injustice, and who became an internationally revered musical icon. Renowned poet and scholar Kwame Dawes analyses in detail his verses and lyrics, matching them against the social and political climate of the time and asking of them what it meant to be a black, Jamaican man thrust into the limelight of western society; how change can be affected through music; and how political and ethical truths can be woven into song. His lyrics are poignant, powerful and poetic and this book showcases his written word. Updated to include an interactive timeline of his life, formed with videos and imagery, as well as integrated Spotify playlists, this is the perfect companion to Bob Marley’s recordings.

Author : Michael Bryson,Arpi Movsesian
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783743513

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Love and its Critics by Michael Bryson,Arpi Movsesian Pdf

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.

Author : Ariel Bloch,Chana Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 075675688X

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The Song of Songs by Ariel Bloch,Chana Bloch Pdf

The Song of Songs, often referred to as the Song of Solomon, is one of the greatest love poems of all time. The Song celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman & her lover, & the intoxicating experience of falling in love. This book of the Old Testament, composed over 2,000 years ago, continues to be a source of inspiration to poets & lovers. In their lyrical new translation, Ariel Bloch & Chana Bloch restore the sensuousness of the original in language that is rich, joyous, & passionate. Faithful to the Hebrew text, the Blochs strip away the veils of mistranslation that have obscured the power & meaning of the poem. The English & Hebrew are on facing pages. Notes.

Author : Margaret Shepherd
Publisher : Mount Tabor Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1640601732

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The Song of Songs by Margaret Shepherd Pdf

"The biblical book, richly illustrated in calligraphy, with commentary"--

Author : Patrick Hunt
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1433104652

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Poetry in the Song of Songs by Patrick Hunt Pdf

This ground-breaking study explores the structure and literary figures in the biblical Hebrew poetry of the Song of Songs. These figures include simile, metaphor, paronomasia, parallelism, sensory cluster, fertility language - flowers, spices, and plants as well as animals and images of wealth - and many other literary devices, delineated but not limited to how they also appear in classical literature as defined by Aristotle, Quintilian, and others. This biblical poetry is also compared to the Greek poetry of Sappho and Egyptian love poetry as well as to the Ramayana and the Kamasutra. The Song of Songs is discreetly yet firmly interpreted as erotic literature.

Author : Tom Gledhill
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514006344

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The Message of the Song of Songs by Tom Gledhill Pdf

At first reading, the Song of Songs appears to be an unabashed celebration of physical attraction, mutual love, and sexual consummation between a man and a woman. Tom Gledhill maintains that the Song of Songs is in fact just that—a literary, poetic exploration of human love that strongly affirms loyalty, beauty, and sexuality. Yet in God's story, these things are not ends in themselves. They are also transcendental longings, whispers of immortality. Like all of creation they point beyond themselves to their divine author, who in this Song is nowhere mentioned but everywhere assumed. Gledhill explores this unique biblical book that forms an interlude in the Old Testament story. He incorporates reflections on other biblical material concerning issues raised by the Song—such as human nature, mortality, and social and cultural conditioning—while staying focused on the text as an extended love poem, both beautiful and mysterious. Part of the beloved Bible Speaks Today series, The Message of the Song of Songs offers an insightful, readable exposition of the biblical text and thought-provoking discussion of how its meaning relates to contemporary life. Used by students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today commentaries are ideal for those studying or preaching the Bible and anyone who wants to delve deeper into the text. This revised edition of a classic volume features lightly updated language and current NIV Scripture quotations with a new interior design.

Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0310365910

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Ancient Israelite Literature in Its Cultural Context by John H. Walton Pdf

This book surveys within the various literary genres (cosmologies, personal archives and epics, hymns, and prayers) parallels between the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780393243901

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Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation by Anonim Pdf

“The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way . . . with evocative simplicity.” —Robert Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley The world’s greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets are traditionally rendered into prose. In this pioneering volume of biblical poets translated in English, Willis Barnstone restores the lyricism and power of the poets’ voices in both the New and Old Testaments. In the Hebrew Bible we hear Solomon rhapsodize in Song of Songs, David chant in Psalms, God and Job debate in grand rhetoric, and prophet poet Isaiah plead for peace. Jesus speaks in wisdom verse in the Gospel, Paul is a philosopher of love, and John of Patmos roars majestically in Revelation, the Bible’s epic poem. This groundbreaking volume includes every major biblical poem from Genesis and Adam and Eve in the Garden to the last pages of Alpha and Omega in Paradise.

Author : Debra Band
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114144160

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The Song of Songs by Debra Band Pdf

Now, in The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden, author and artist Debra Band presents a breathtakingly beautiful illuminated work in which these two lines of interpretation are harmonized within a stunning visual context.

Author : Ariel A. Bloch,Chana Bloch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520213300

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The Song of Songs by Ariel A. Bloch,Chana Bloch Pdf

Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs. This attractive and exuberant edition helps to explain much of its power, while leaving its mystery intact. -- Alicia Ostriker, The New York Review of Books. Quite simply the best version in the English language. Its poetic voice, intimate, dignified, and informed by meticulous scholarship, carries us into the Eden of the original Hebrew text: a world in which the sexual awakening of two unmarried lovers is celebrated with a sensuality and a richness of music that are thrilling beyond words. -- Stephen Mitchell.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234

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Songs of Innocence by William Blake Pdf

Author : Catherine L. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781600200021

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The Song of Songs by Catherine L. Morris Pdf

Dive into the magical imagery and metaphor that is the Song of Solomon, the Old Testament book dedicated to the union of man and woman as a vision of the union between mankind and the Lord. San Antonio, Texas artist Catherine L. Morris brings this masterpiece to life with her distinctive style, using gouache paint and ink on tea-stained paper. The result is a sensual and spiritual journey through the ancient Holy Land and into the passionate union of two young lovers. Immerse yourself in the romance and reverie of one of the great poems of all time with this unique project.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271045603

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Frauenlob's Song of Songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Professor Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986123064

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Song of Songs by Professor Christopher Kelly Pdf

The Song of Songs is a profoundly mysterious poem. It is both deeply spiritual and dangerously sensual. It has puzzled and delighted readers and scholars for hundreds of years, being translated more than any other part of the Bible. Christopher Kelly takes a new approach, uncovering a miraculously complex structure in the Song. Understanding this structure is the key to the Song's lock, opening the door on a true love story. It is the searing narrative of one vulnerable girl's devotion and her sexual and spiritual growth into a woman. Her forbidden passion for the boy, her 'king, ' forces her to arrange a series of secret trysts that grow riskier and riskier as the poem progresses. The Song has the timeless qualities of Romeo and Juliet, with all the excitement and jeopardy such love entails. It also manages to speak to modern issues such as sex, spirituality and feminism. Enjoy the Song again for the first time.