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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
1 Space and Gender in the Song of Songs
Space as Allegory: Premodern Readings
Space as Scenery: Nineteenth-Century Readings
Space as Travesty: Twentieth-Century Readings
Space as Agonizing Metaphor: A Twenty-First Century Trend
Space as Life-World: Preliminary Considerations for a Pluralistic Reading
2 A Sociospatial Approach to the Song of Song’s Structure
The Twenty Idylls
Evidence from Versification
Spatial Discontinuity and Formal Cohesion in Song of Songs 1:9–2:7
The Four Cycles
Court (idylls 1, 4, 10, 13, and 15)
City (idylls 6, 8, 14, 17, and 19)
Vineyard (idylls 2, 7, 11, 16, and 20)
Wilderness (idylls 3, 5, 9, 12, and 18)
The Macrostructure of the Song of Songs
Ten Speakers in Four Landscapes: The Tetractys Pattern
Three-Idyll Sequences
Symmetries inside the Cycles
Symmetries across the Cycles
3 The Poetics of Social Diversity
Greek Literary and Visual Models
Production and Consumption
Geographical Horizons
Social Gender and the Exchange of Fantasies
4 Ptolemy IV Philopator and his Religious Policy
Women
Banquets
Horse Races
Bacchanals
Dionysian Politics
Tattoos
Negotiating Religion
5 Was the Song of Songs Composed in Amman?
“Jewish Sheikhs” of Transjordan
One Thousand Cleruchs between Arabia and Judaea
Warfare in a Love Poem
A Judaean Garrison and a Greek City
Peasants, Nomads, and Slaves
A Skeptical Anthropology
6 Conclusion
Appendix
Images
Structural Hypothesis for the Song of Songs
Translation of the Song of Songs
Bibliography
Sources, 1: Classics
Sources, 2: Papyri
Studies
Index of Biblical References
Index of Names
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