Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs

Download or read book Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs written by Jennifer L. Andruska and published by Oudtestamentische Studiën, Old. This book was released on 2019 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some time scholars have debated whether the Song of Songs has connections to the wisdom genre and how this changes our understanding of it. In Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs, Jennifer Andruska shows that the influence of the wisdom genre on the Song is pervasive, running throughout the book, and offers an entirely new understanding of the book's wisdom message. She demonstrates that the Song has combined elements of the ancient Near Eastern love song and wisdom genres to produce a wisdom literature about romantic love, inspiring readers to pursue a particular type of love relationship, modelled by the lovers throughout the poem, and aiming to transform them, through character formation, into wise lovers themselves.