Hunt, Patrick.
Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis / [electronic resource] : Patrick Hunt. - New York : Peter Lang, c2008. - xi, 368 p. - Studies in biblical literature, v. 96 1089-0645 ; . - Studies in biblical literature ; v. 96. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-360) and index.
Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.
Bible as literature.
Electronic books.
BS1485.52 / .H6 2008eb
223/.906
Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis / [electronic resource] : Patrick Hunt. - New York : Peter Lang, c2008. - xi, 368 p. - Studies in biblical literature, v. 96 1089-0645 ; . - Studies in biblical literature ; v. 96. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-360) and index.
Focus, history of the book, hermeneutics and its influence -- The figurative language of desire : "your lovemaking is better than wine" -- Subtle wordplay : concealed paronomasia and secrets -- Sensory imagery : "he shall lie between my breasts" -- The lovers' garden : fertility imagery as eroticism in flowers, fruit and spices -- Animal imagery : stags, gazelles and flocks as virility and wealth -- The lovers' banquet : "feed me sweet cakes" -- The lovers' dualisms : binary language in poetic parallelisms -- Protection, power and priceless worth : love's safeguards -- The lovers' transformations : similes -- The lovers' synthesis : metaphors.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bible.--O.T.--Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism.
Bible as literature.
Electronic books.
BS1485.52 / .H6 2008eb
223/.906