Song of Songs in Sense Sound and Space

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This volume offers 13 cutting-edge essays on the Song of Songs presented in four categories.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>1. Exegetical and Contextualised Studies.</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Fernandes argues Solomon's sidelining in the Song is unjust and uncovers subtle allusions to him. Scheffler examines the contentious place of Song 7.1 and its depiction. Lombaard challenges whether gender equity exists in the Song arguing that female voices are more prominent than male ones. Landy employs affect theory to the depiction of the woman as a mare (1.9-11) and the invitation for her to return (7.1). Kim highlights the subjectivity of interpretation by comparing readings of Song 7 by Keel Black and herself through the lens of Umberto Eco's semiotic model. Potgieter and Lombaard contemporise Paul Decock's readings of Origen and Bernard on the Song.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>2. Spatial Studies</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. Fischer applies Lefebvre's spatial theory to the Song highlighting the protagonists' physical space; their conceived (cultural) space; and their lived space (their supra-temporal experience). Dantonel analyses several spatial domains in both the Song and Proverbs: spring; well; and vineyard along with three places of enduring love: mother's house; door; and window.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>3. Comparative Studies.  </strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Volkonski compares Early Arabic poetic techniques and the Song to show new possibilities for interpreting the latter. Recalcati investigates parallels between the Song and Hellenistic epigrammatic poetry within the </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Anthologia Palatina</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. Biermann explores the metaphor(s) 'set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm' in 8.6 through cognitive linguistics and sensory archaeology.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>4. Studies in Music.</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Boyce-Tillman integrates her reading of the Song with her musical compositions to contemporise themes including fertility the body ecotheology and apophatic theology. Lamont and Fernandes survey four shared tropes between Arvo Pärt's </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Deer's Cry</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> St. Patrick's </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Breastplate</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and the Song: love and war; incantation and magic; connection with nature; and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>in medias res</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>