Reading the Song of Songs in a #Metoo Era

Women, Sex, and Public Discourse
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54392-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 212, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1044 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chavel, Simeon B.

James, Elaine T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Song of Songs and Women’s Voices

Elaine James and Simeon Chavel

Part 1: The Song of Songs: Literary and Theoretical Approaches

1 The Song of Songs and #MeToo

Critical Reading, Reparative Reading

Elaine James

2 Sex in Public in the Song of Songs

Rhiannon Graybill

3 The Speaker of the Song of Songs and Her Publics

Simeon Chavel

4 Speaking of the Other

Interest and Love in Song 5:2–8

Sarah Zhang

Part 2: The Song of Songs in Historical Contexts

5 The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp

6 Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry

Martti Nissinen

7 Recovering Women from the Scholars (Even from Me)

Deborah Green

8 Singing the Song Anew

Hildegard of Bingen as Interpreter of the Song of Songs

Karl Shuve

9 Women’s Voices and the Cost of Going Public

Song of Songs, Canonization and Safe Spaces

Anna Marsh

10 The Gendering of Sexual Agency

Case Studies from Song of Songs 8:5–14 and an Infamous Indian Trial

Havilah Dharamraj

11 Space and Regulation in the Song of Songs and Contemporary Sexual Politics

Yvonne Sherwood

12 Thinking with Pink

Affective and Sensate Readings of Marc Chagall’s Song of Songs

Fiona Black

13 How to Read the Work of ‘Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things’

Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship and the #MeToo Debate on Cultural Texts of Terror

Karen V. Guth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elaine T. James, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of An Invitation to Biblical Poetry (2021) and Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place (2017).


Simeon B. Chavel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has published on many aspects of biblical literature and the history and ideas of ancient Israel and Judah, including Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah (Mohr Siebeck, 2014).