A vocabulary of desire : the Song of Songs in the early synagogue /

In A Vocabulary of Desire , Laura Lieber offers a nuanced, multifaceted and highly original study of how the Song of Songs was understood and deployed by Jewish liturgical poets in Late Antiquity (ca. 4th-7th centuries CE). Through her examination of poems which embellish and even rewrite the Song o...

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Main Author: Lieber, Laura Suzanne.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 40.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

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Call Number: BM670.P5 L484 2014

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Laura Lieber
  • "A Garden Enclosed": The Song of Songs as a Gateway to Synagogue Poetry /
  • Laura Lieber
  • "Let Him Kiss Me": The Place of Piyyut in the History of Interpretation of the Song /
  • Laura Lieber
  • "Your Voice is Sweet": Piyyut As an Extension of Biblical Rhetoric /
  • Laura Lieber
  • "I Am My Beloved's and His Desire is for Me": The World of the Songs /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Translator's Introduction /
  • Laura Lieber
  • A Love Song to the Torah: Anonymous, Qedushta Shir ha-Shirim /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Lyrics of Love: Yannai, Shivata Shir ha-Shirim /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Of Ritual and Reciprocity: Yannai, Qedushta Shir ha-Shirim /
  • Laura Lieber
  • The Power of Dew: Eleazar birabbi Qallir, Shivata for Dew /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Youthful Love Is Eternal: Eleazar birabbi Qallir, The Groom's Qedushta /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Like Stars of Light: Eleazar (birabbi Qallir?), Yotzer Shir ha-Shirim /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Conclusion /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Bibliography /
  • Laura Lieber
  • Indexes /
  • Laura Lieber.