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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karl Shuve |
ISBN: | 9780198766445 0198766440 |
OCLC Number: | 1047932392 |
Description: | XIX, 236 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | THE SONG OF SONGS IN NORTH AFRICA AND SPAIN; THE SONG OF SONGS IN ITALY |
Responsibility: | Karl Shuve. |
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Shuve's fine study - detailed, scholarly and smoothly-written - opens new vistas on the multifarious uses to which the Song of Songs could be put in late ancient Latin Christianity. * Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University, Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Karl Shuve has shown that the more common, one could even say standard, approach to Latin Christian exegesis of the Song of Songs has missed some of the most important moments of influence of this beautiful text in the shaping of the western Christian tradition... This book is elegantly presented and wholly credible. * E. Ann Matter, Church History and Religious Culture * The author of this rich and finely written study makes the very important point that the early interpreters were not very troubled by a bad conscience about not acknowledging the plain sense as a human, sexually erotic one, as readers like Elizabeth Clark have seemed to suppose. * Mark W. Elliott, Augustiniana 67:3.4 * Most accounts of the history of exegesis of the Song of Songs in Western Christianity focus on the commentary tradition, assume that the book's erotic character was a problem to be overcome by imaginative allegorical reading, highlight the theme of the soul's mystical ascent to the divine, and acknowledge the great third-century Alexandrian theologian Origen as the dominant influence on the development of both patristic and medieval interpretations of the Song. Inhis thorough and often insightful revisionist history of the Song's role in third- and fourth-century Latin debates about ecclesiology and ascetical theology, Karl Shuve successfully challenges previous scholarship on all of those points. As a result, the history of Song exegesis in the patristic Westwill need to be thoroughly rewritten, and the subsequent history of medieval interpretation will at least need to be inflected with some appropriate nuance. * Arthur Holder, Reading Religion * Read more...