The Message of the Song of Songs
Inter-Varsity Press (Verlag)
978-1-78974-443-9 (ISBN)
In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experienced by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyalty and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out.
Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, the point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chose the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love of his people.
Tom Gledhill served as a member of the teaching staff at Union School of Theology when it was known as ETCW. He was appointed in 1993 and continued until his retirement in 2006.
Contents
General preface ix
Author's preface xi
Chief abbreviations xiv
Select bibliography xv
An orientation to the Song 1
Part 1: The Song as a whole
1. An overview of the text of the Song of Songs 25
2. A literal translation of the Song 32
3. A free paraphrase of the Song 47
Part 2: An exposition of the Song
4. Title and attribution (1:1) 77 5. The first cycle: passionate longings (1:2 - 2:7) 80
6. The second cycle: springtime and showers (2:8 - 3:5) 119
7. The third cycle: the lovers' royal wedding (3:6 - 5:1) 135
8. The fourth cycle: lost and found (5:2 - 6:3) 164
9. The fifth cycle: beauty kindles desire (6:4 - 8:4) 177
10. The sixth cycle: the security of love (8:5-14) 205
For further thought 234
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Bible Speaks Today Old Testament |
| Verlagsort | Nottingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78974-443-1 / 1789744431 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78974-443-9 / 9781789744439 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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