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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version : |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karl Shuve |
| ISBN: | 9780191079207 0191079200 9780191821325 0191821322 |
| OCLC Number: | 937719084 |
| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2010 under title: Song of Songs in the early Latin Christian tradition : a study of the Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira and its context. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Contents: | Cover ; The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; PERIODICALS AND SERIES; ANCIENT SOURCES; Introduction; 0.1. ESOTERICISM AND EROS: THE SHAPE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION; 0.2. THE ARGUMENT AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK; Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain; 1: "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Church as Closed Community in Cyprian and the Donatists; 1.1. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE AND THE PROBLEM OF REBAPTISM; 1.1.1. Persecution and the Rebaptism Crisis 1.1.2. The Problem of Rebaptism and the Song of Songs1.1.3. The Song of Songs in Cyprian's Letters and De unitate; 1.1.4. The Legacy of Cyprian; 1.2. THE DONATIST SCHISM; 1.2.1. The Origins of the Donatist Schism; 1.2.2. Optatus' Against Parmenian the Donatist; 1.2.3. Traces of Donatist Use of the Song in the Writings of Augustine; 2: "As a Lily among the Thorns": The Church as Mixed Community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine; 2.1. PACIAN OF BARCELONA AND THE NOVATIANS IN SPAIN; 2.1.1. Pacian's Career; 2.1.2. The Correspondence with Simpronian; 2.1.3. The Song of Songs in Pacian's Writings 2.2. TYCONIUS AND THE BIPARTITE CHURCH2.2.1. Identifying Tyconius; 2.2.2. Tyconius' Use of the Song of Songs; 2.2.3. The Sources of Tyconius' Exegesis; 2.3. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND THE HIDDEN JUDGMENT OF GOD; 2.3.1. Nuptial Theology in Augustine's Thought; 2.3.2. The Song of Songs in Anti-Manichean Polemic; 2.3.3. De Baptismo: The Song, Ritual Purity, and the Corpus Permixtum; 3: "The Church is the Flesh of Christ": The Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira; 3.1. THE EARLIEST LATIN COMMENTARIES: VICTORINUS OF POETOVIO AND RETICIUS OF AUTUN 3.1.1. Victorinus as Commentator and Translator3.1.2. Reticius' Lost Commentary on the Song; 3.2. THE DATE, SETTING, AND STRUCTURE OF THE TRACTATUS; 3.2.1. Textual Considerations; 3.2.2. The Setting of its Composition and Revision; 3.3. FROM INCARNATION TO FINAL JUDGMENT: THE SONG OF SONGS AS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH; 3.3.1. The Incarnation and the Origins of the Church; 3.3.2. The Church's Struggles with "Heretics"; 3.3.3. Crucifixion, Resurrection, and the Kingdom of God; 3.4. CONCLUSION; Part II: The Song of Songs in Italy 4: "Like the Holy Church, Unsullied by Intercourse": Ambrose, Virgins, and the Song4.1. WESTERN CONTROVERSY AND EASTERN INFLUENCE; 4.1.1. The Influence of Athanasius; 4.1.2. The Politics of Asceticism; 4.2. DE VIRGINIBUS: VIRGINITY AND THE ANGELIC LIFE; 4.2.1. Virginity and/as Martyrdom; 4.2.2. The Symbolic Significance of Virginity; 4.2.3. The Song's Bride as Consecrated Virgin; 4.3. DE VIRGINITATE: FROM VIRGIN BODIES TO VIRGIN SOULS; 4.3.1. Situating the De Virginitate; 4.3.2. The Formation of the Virgin Soul; 4.3.3. Towards an Ascetic Vision of Christian Identity |
| Series Title: | Oxford early Christian studies. |
| Responsibility: | Karl Shuve. |
Abstract:
Dr Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the Song of Songs in the Latin-speaking churches of Late Antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate
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