My Perfect One
Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 2015
- ISBN 9780199359332
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 236x157x20 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book maps the landscape of early rabbinic interpretation of the Song of Songs by charting the interpretations contained in Tannaitic interpretation of the Torah (Halachic Midrashim).
MoreLong description:
Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced understanding of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs employing typological interpretation in order to correlate Scripture with exemplary events in Israel's history. Throughout the book Kaplan explores ways in which this portrayal helped shape a model vision of rabbinic piety as well as an idealized portrayal of their beloved, God, in the wake of the destruction, dislocation, and loss the Jewish community experienced in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The archetypal language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual landscape in which to imagine an idyllic construction of Israel's relationship to her beloved, marked by mutual devotion and fidelity. Through this approach to Song of Songs, the Tannaim helped lay the foundations for later Jewish thought of a robust theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people.
Highly focused and erudite, Kaplan's work is to be commended for providing insight into a heretofore underdeveloped area of research.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Allegory, Mashal, or Figuration? Song of Songs in Early Rabbinic Interpretation
Chapter 2 - Song of Songs and Israel's National Narrative
Chapter 3 - Female Beauty and the Affective Nature of Rabbinic Piety
Chapter 4 - Israel's Ideal Man
Chapter 5 - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? Domesticating the Elusive Lover of Song of Songs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Rabbinic Texts
Non-Rabbinic Ancient Sources
Secondary Sources
