Poetry in the Song of songs a literary analysis /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2008.
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| Series: | Studies in biblical literature ;
v. 96. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.