Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse

Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse
ISBN-10
9004543937
ISBN-13
9789004543935
Category
Religion
Pages
359
Language
English
Published
2023-06-26
Publisher
BRILL

Description

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.

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