The Song of Songs: A Philological Analysis of the Hebrew Book Tapa dura - 2006

Peeters, 2005. Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Very Good-. 539 pages slight library marks and tape on spine oclc 9789042916388,

Peeters Publishers, 2005. hardcover. New. 137x19x191.

Louvan: Peeters, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Quarto (12" x 8-1/2"). xvi, 539, (3)pp. Indices and 13 page bibliography. Text in English and Hebrew. Red cloth lettered in gilt. An ex-library book but with minimal rubber stamps on title page & at bottom of text block, otherwise fine. Since time immemorial the Song of Songs (SofS) has been a source of amazement and inspiration. The countless translations and interpretations of this book differ strongly from each other. Does the Hebrew text indeed justify this? To answer this question, an unprejudiced philological analysis is necessary that keeps strictly to the text, which does justice to the context, and approaches the book intrinsically as rationally as possible. These methods followed by the author make clear that the SofS is a continuous story, which runs from SofS 1.2 to 8.14 with a cohesive structure, which is readily comprehensible and logical. That even applies to verses (e.g. 2.15; 6.12), which are seen by everyone as puzzling.… Leer más

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