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- My Perfect One
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199359334
ISBN-13
9780199359332
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204326509
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Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
My Perfect One : Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs
Publication Year
2015
Subject
General, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion
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Hardcover
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0.9 in
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17.3 Oz
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9.2 in
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6.3 in
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2014-033924
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"Highly focused and erudite, Kaplan's work is to be commended for providing insight into a heretofore underdeveloped area of research."--Joshua Madden, Reading Religion"Kaplan's book is a fine study of an important and engaging subject. It highlights a beautiful body of texts from a pivotal moment in not only Jewish history but the history of biblical exegesis broadly speaking."--Laura Suzanne Lieber, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar"[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development."--Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews"Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, EmoryUniversity"Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. Hisbook is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters ProfessorEmeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary"Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, "Highly focused and erudite, Kaplan's work is to be commended for providing insight into a heretofore underdeveloped area of research."--Joshua Madden, Reading Religion"Kaplan's book is a fine study of an important and engaging subject. It highlights a beautiful body of texts from a pivotal moment in not only Jewish history but the history of biblical exegesis broadly speaking."--Laura Suzanne Lieber, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar"[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development."--Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews"Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University "Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. His book is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, "[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development."--Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews "Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University "Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. His book is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, "Kaplan's book is a fine study of an important and engaging subject. It highlights a beautiful body of texts from a pivotal moment in not only Jewish history but the history of biblical exegesis broadly speaking."--Laura Suzanne Lieber, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar "[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development."--Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews "Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University "Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. His book is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, "Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University "Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. His book is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism, "Highly focused and erudite, Kaplan's work is to be commended for providing insight into a heretofore underdeveloped area of research."--Joshua Madden, Reading Religion "Kaplan's book is a fine study of an important and engaging subject. It highlights a beautiful body of texts from a pivotal moment in not only Jewish history but the history of biblical exegesis broadly speaking."--Laura Suzanne Lieber, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar "[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development."--Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews "Song of Songs is love without carpools, in-laws, and budgets, unlike the covenanted love of obligation and loyalty in the rest of Scripture. Later Judaism read Song of Songs as expressing the relationship of God and the Jewish people, fusing intimate love with covenanted love. How did they do that, and why? Kaplan proposes a learned and sensitive answer." --David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University "Jonathan Kaplan has engaged both the figurative playfulness of the text and the daring probes of rabbinic tradition. In doing so he is creative enough that he has not only opened for us some of the history of interpretation, but in his bold proposals is a participant in that ongoing history of interpretation. With immense learning and discerning erudition, Kaplan shows how the Rabbis tilted the poetry toward paradigmatic reference points in Jewish history. His book is an uncommon achievement, and a forceful invitation to engage this text in awareness that 'history' is thick with possibility." --Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary "Jonathan Kaplan provides a methodologically cautious but deeply enlightening guide to the earliest interpretations of the Song of Songs as a divine love song. Readers of many backgrounds will find that his close, perceptive textual readings open a world of exegetical creativity that lies at the heart of a two-millennia love affair of profound beauty and historical significance." --Steven D. Fraade, Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
223/.906088296
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction1. Allegory, Mashal, or Figuration? Song of Songs in Early Rabbinic Interpretation2. Song of Songs and Israel's National Narrative3. Female Beauty and the Affective Nature of Rabbinic Piety4. Israel's Ideal Man5. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? Domesticating the Elusive Lover of Song of SongsConclusionBibliographyRabbinic TextsNon-Rabbinic Ancient SourcesSecondary Sources
Synopsis
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., 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). In a departure from scholarship that classifies rabbinic interpretation of the Song as purely allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the early sages' typological interpretation. Song was understood in ways similar to how one might have read an epic poem inantiquity and conveys an important rabbinic theological idea-that despite the catastrophes of 70 and 135 C.E., God still loves Israel and will right the catastrophe in his own time., 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 ofSong of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs through a mode of typological interpretation concerned with thecorrespondence between Scripture and ideal 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 of an idealized vision 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 and idealized language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual landscape in which to imagine anidyllic 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 Jewishthought of a robust theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people., 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 reading of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs through a mode of typological interpretation concerned with the correspondence between Scripture and ideal 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 of an idealized vision 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 and idealized 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.
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BS1485.52.K37 2015
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