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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. |
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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...
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