/ edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg
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1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Fordham University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiii, 382 p. ill. 23 cm.
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INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-367) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Peter S. Hawkins and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg -- "All that you say, I will do" : a sermon on the book of Ruth / Ellen F. Davis -- Beginning with Ruth : an essay on translating / Ellen F. Davis -- Subverting the biblical world : sociology and politics in the book of Ruth / Andre LaCocque -- The book of Ruth as comedy : classical and modern perspectives / Nehama Aschkenasy -- Transfigured night : midrashic readings of the book of Ruth / Judith A. Kates -- Dark ladies and redemptive compassion : Ruth and the messianic lineage in Judaism / Nehemia Polen -- Ruth amid the gentiles / Peter S. Hawkins -- Ruth speaks in Yiddish : the poetry of Rosa Yakubovitsh and Itsik Manger / Kathryn Hellerstein -- Printing the story : the Bible in etchings, engravings, and woodcuts / Margaret Adams Parker -- Translating eros / Chana Bloch -- "I am black and beautiful" / Andre LaCocque -- Reading the song iconographically / Ellen F. Davis -- Unresolved and unresolvable : problems in interpreting the song / Marc Brettler -- Entering the holy of holies : rabbinic midrash and the language of intimacy / Judith A. Kates -- Intradivine romance : the song of songs in the Zohar / Arthur Green -- The love song of the millennium : medieval Christian apocalyptic and the Song of songs / E. Ann Matter -- Monastic reading and allegorical sub/versions of desire / Mark Burrows -- The female voice : Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of songs / Margot Fassler -- The harlot and the giant : Dante and the Song of songs / Lino Pertile -- In the absence of love / Carey Ellen Walsh -- Song? songs? whose song? : reflections of a radical reader / Carole R. Fontaine -- Honey and milk underneath your tongue : chanting a promised land / Jacqueline Osherow -- "Where has your beloved gone?" : the Song of songs in contemporary Israeli poetry / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Bible. O.T. Ruth- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon- Criticism, interpretation, etc