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"...very illuminating...refreshing to read..." -- Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Booklist 1999
... "Romance" is contagious, oftentimes to an astonishing degree. -- Z. Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, reviewing for Choice
...deserves a broad reading and will be deeply appreciated... a truly great addition to resources for faith in practice. -- The Counselor
...very illuminating...In effect this is a commentary in discursive style and refreshing to read. -- Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, W.G.E. Watson
Another excellent book from the distinguished scholar... remarkable work... genuinely new Interpretations of familiar texts. -- David Tracy, University of Chicago
His scholarship is indisputable; his insights enlightening. -- The Bible Today
LaCocque has written a remarkable, post-modern, study of the Song of Songs. -- John J. Collins, Professor of Hebrew Bible, The University of Chicago
Once in a generation a biblical scholar unlocks the hidden secrets of an entire biblical book... -- Rabbi Mayer I. Gruber, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
... "Romance" is contagious, oftentimes to an astonishing degree. -- Z. Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, reviewing for Choice
...deserves a broad reading and will be deeply appreciated... a truly great addition to resources for faith in practice. -- The Counselor
...very illuminating...In effect this is a commentary in discursive style and refreshing to read. -- Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, W.G.E. Watson
Another excellent book from the distinguished scholar... remarkable work... genuinely new Interpretations of familiar texts. -- David Tracy, University of Chicago
His scholarship is indisputable; his insights enlightening. -- The Bible Today
LaCocque has written a remarkable, post-modern, study of the Song of Songs. -- John J. Collins, Professor of Hebrew Bible, The University of Chicago
Once in a generation a biblical scholar unlocks the hidden secrets of an entire biblical book... -- Rabbi Mayer I. Gruber, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Bible and Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
From the Back Cover
Due in large measure to its unique literary genre, the Song of Songs has been interpreted in diverse ways. "Spiritual" readers of the poem have, for example, felt a deep-seated repugnance before its erotic nature. This has led them to employ a variety of artificial devices to tame it: the text has at times been altered, the metaphors have been allegorized, the similes have been labeled grotesque, the date of composition has traveled virtually the whole gamut of biblical chronology, the author's purpose has been reduced to nothing, and the poem itself has become an exercise in futility. All of this, says Andr LaCocque, supports the notion that the issue with which any reader of the Song must come to grips is, first and foremost, a hermeneutical one.
A reading of Song of Songs, however, must take seriously the interpretations of this text that have influenced the lives of synagogue and church alike. Allegorical interpretation demands too many textual distortions and too much arbitrariness of explanation in its support. On the other hand, a plain reading, taken in isolation, bypasses levels of meaning that Judaism and Christianity have acknowledged as legitimate. Reading the poem intertextually, LaCocque contends, is a bridge to the traditional midrashic and allegorical interpretation.
Using a naturalistic approach, LaCocque shows that the Song is fundamentally a critique of the mores of conformist societies and of the dualism between body and soul prevalent in sophisticated and popular mentalities. In addition, he insists that the author of the poem is a woman.
Andr LaCocque is Professor Emeritus, Hebrew Scriptures, Chicago Theological Seminary.
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