The Song of Songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin Christianity / Karl Shuve.
By: Shuve, Karl [author.]
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford early Christian studies: Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198766440; 9780198766445Subject(s): Bible. Song of Solomon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600LOC classification: BS1485.52 | .S59 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and indexes.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BS1485.52 .S59 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903569768 |
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2010 under title: Song of Songs in the early Latin Christian tradition : a study of the Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira and its context.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and indexes.
Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain. "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed": the church as closed community in Cyprian and the Donatists -- "As a lily among the thorns": the church as mixed community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine -- "The church is the flesh of Christ": the Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira -- Part II: The Song of Songs in Italy. "Like the holy church, unsullied by intercourse": Ambrose, virgins, and the Song -- "For souls know not covenants of wedlock": ascetic ideology and mystical theology in Ambrose's later works -- "This book contains the mysteries of virginity": Jerome and the making of ascetic community -- Epilogue: Towards Medieval exegesis.