Farewell to Shulamit : Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs

The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bible's most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention that merges all of the Song's voices into the dialogue of a single couple, its co...

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Autor principal: Carsten Wilke
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