The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity by Karl Shuve (review)

• Autores: Laura Suzanne Lieber
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 155-158
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In recent decades, a broad consensus has emerged that posits that figurative readings—those which understand the female voice to symbolize the church, the synagogue, or the individual soul, and the male voice to be that of the deity—were layered over an original, “secular” collection of poems describing the experiences of individual lovers. According to this understanding, the surface meaning of the frankly erotic, if occasionally obscure, poems presented such a problem to early exegetes that only allegory could redeem it. [...]many of the sources are not commentaries, but other kinds of writing.