A Feminist Companion to Song of Songs

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB/OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com. Carole Fontaine is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Carole R. Fonataine/ Preface/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part 1/ Feminist Appropriation of the Song of Songs? In General/ J. Cheryl Exum/ Ten Things Every Feminist Should Know About the Song of Songs/ Alicia Ostriker/ A Holy of Holies: The Song of Songs as Countertext/ Jonneke Bekkenkamp/ Into Another Scene of Choices: The Theological Value of the Song of Songs/ Daphne V. Arbel/ ‘My Vineyard, my Very Own, Is for Myself'/ Part II/ Specific Readings: Allegories and Feminist Readings/ Fiona C. Black/ Unlikely Bedfellows: Allegorical and Feminist Readings of Song of Songs 7.1-8/ Jane Barr/ Luis de León and the Song of Songs/ Klara Butting/ Go Your Way: Women Rewrite the Scriptures (Song of Songs 2.8-14)/ Part III/ The Song of Songs, Personalized/ Athalya Brenner/ ‘My' Song of Songs/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Voice of the Turtle: Now its MY Song of Songs/ Maria Häusl and Ursula Silber/ ‘You Are Beautiful my Love':The Song of Songs of Women/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors