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

By (author) Carsten Wilke

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The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bibleâ€™s most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention that merges all of the Songâ€™s voices into the dialogue of a single couple, its composite heroine Shulamit being a projection screen for norms of womanhood. An alternative socio-spatial reading, starting with the Hebrew textâ€™s strophic patterns and its references to historical realia, explores the poemâ€™s artful alternation between courtly, urban, rural, and pastoral scenes with their distinct characters. The literary construction of social difference juxtaposes class-specific patterns of consumption, mobility, emotion, power structures, and gender relations. This new image of the cycle as a detailed poetic frieze of ancient society eventually leads to a precise hypothesis concerning its literary and religious context in the Hellenistic age, as well as its geographical origins in the multiethnic borderland east of the Jordan. In a Jewish echo of anthropological skepticism, the poem emphasizes the plurality and relativity of the human condition while praising the communicative powers of pleasure, fantasy, and multifarious Eros.

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