Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Acknowledgements/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ On Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Feminist Woman: Introduction to the Series/ Athalya Brenner/ On Feminist Criticism of the Song of Songs/ Part I/ Voices From The Past/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Women's Movement and the Bible/ G. D. Ginsburg/ The Importance of the Book/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Song of Solomon/ Part II/ Female Authorship and Female Culture/ S.D. Goitein/ The Song of Songs: A Female Composition/ Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Fokkelien Van Dijk/ The Canon of the Old Testament and Wonen's Cultural Tradtions/ Athalya Brenner/ Women Poets and Authors/ Part III/ Intertextual Connections and the Critique of Patriarchy/ Phyllis Trible/ Love's Lyrics Redeemed/ Marvin H.Pope/ The Song of Songs and Women's Liberation: An ‘Outsider's' Critique/ Francis Landy/ Two Versions of Paradise/ T. Drorah Setel/ Prophets and Pornography: Female Sexual Imagery in Hosea/ Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ The Imagination of Power and the Power of Imagination/ Part IV/ Structure and Discourse/ M. Deckers/ The Structure of the Song of Songs and the Centrality of nepeš/ Carol Meyers/ Gender Imagery in the Song of Songs/ Part V/ Gender Interpretation and the Case of the WASFS/ Richard N. Soulen/ The wasfs of Song of Songs and the Hermeneutic/ Marica Falk/ The wasf/ Athalya Brenner/ ‘Come back, come back to the Shulammite' (Song of Songs 7.1-10): A parody of the wasf Genre/ Part VI/ In Retrospect/ Francis Landy/ Mishneh Torah: A Response to Myself and Phyllis Trible/ J. William Whedbee/ Paradox and Parody in the Song of Solomon: Towards a Cosmic Reading of the Most Sublime Song/ Athalya Brenner/ Afterword/ Bibliography