The Song of Songs, eight chapters of love lyrics found in the collection of wisdom literature attributed to Solomon, is the most enigmatic book of the Bible. For thousands of years Jews and Christians alike have preserved it in the canon of scripture and used it in liturgy. Exegetes saw it as a central text for allegorical interpretations, and so the Song of Songs has exerted an enormous influence on spirituality and mysticism in the Western tradition.
In the Voice of My Beloved, E. Ann Matter focuses on the most fertile moment of Song of Songs interpretation: the Middle Ages. At least eighty Latin commentaries on the text survive from the period. In tracing the evolution of these commentaries, Matter reveals them to be a vehicle for expressing changing medieval ideas about the church, the relationship between body and soul, and human and divine love. She shows that the commentaries constitute a well-defined genre of medieval Latin literature. And in discussing the exegesis of the Song of Songs, she takes into account the modern exegesis of the book and feminist critiques of the theology embodied in the text.
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"The author has provided us with a valuable resource for understanding the long and varied history of the interpretation of the Song of Songs."—Manuscripta
"[Matter] offers an original translation of Canticles from the Vulgate Latin that is very fine. And her focus allows her to illuminate the existence of a "shadow" Origen in the commentary tradition, the very idea of which I find fascinating."—Studies in the Age of Chaucer
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The complexities of the commentary on and use of the Song of Songs in medieval Europe may seem on first consideration to be of limited interest, addressing only specialists in Christian literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Song of Songs, Virgin Mary, Gregory the Great, New York, Honorius Augustodunensis, Holy Spirit, Gregory of Elvira, Bernard of Clairvaux, Primitive Church, Robert of Tombelaine, University of California Press, Alan of Lille, Feast of the Assumption, Paschasius Radbertus, Van Engen, Cornell University Press, Rupert of Deutz, Trudperter Hohelied, Ann Matter, Beryl Smalley, Cambridge University Press, Hebrew Bible, Hrabanus Maurus, John Cassian, Paul Meyvaert New!
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The complexities of the commentary on and use of the Song of Songs in medieval Europe may seem on first consideration to be of limited interest, addressing only specialists in Christian literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mariological commentary, commentary genre, osculo oris sui, tropological mode, changing portrait, ecclesiological interpretation, tropological interpretation, ego dormio, vernacular commentaries, modus agendi, cantica canticorum, medieval exegetes, des cantiques, medieval exegesis, allegorical mode, commentary tradition, first prologue, medieval allegory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Song of Songs, Virgin Mary, Gregory the Great, New York, Honorius Augustodunensis, Holy Spirit, Gregory of Elvira, Bernard of Clairvaux, Primitive Church, Robert of Tombelaine, University of California Press, Alan of Lille, Feast of the Assumption, Paschasius Radbertus, Van Engen, Cornell University Press, Rupert of Deutz, Trudperter Hohelied, Ann Matter, Beryl Smalley, Cambridge University Press, Hebrew Bible, Hrabanus Maurus, John Cassian, Paul Meyvaert New!
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- Song of Songs (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom on 5 pages
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- The Song of Songs (Berit Olam (The Everlasting Covenant): Studies In Hebrew Narrative And Poetry) by Dianne Bergant on page 16, page 143, and Back Matter
- Symbolism and Interpretation by Tzvetan Todorov on page 42, page 77, and page 79
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- From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Donna Spivey Ellington on 4 pages
- From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (The Middle Ages Series) by Barbara Newman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and Their Readers (Material Texts) by Andrew Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin (The Middle Ages Series) by David Townsend on page 184, and Back Matter
- Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (California Studies in the History of Art) by Jeffrey F. Hamburger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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