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Article: The Song of Songs
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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ATHALYA BRENNER and CAROLE R. FONTAINE (eds.), The Song of Songs (Feminist Companion to the Bible 216; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000). Pp. 211. Paper 16.45, $28.50.
This second volume on the Song of Songs in the Feminist Companion series well illustrates important shifts in feminist scholarship on the Song of Songs over the last decade. Whereas the first volume focused on recovery of the Song of Songs as a feminist resource, this second volume includes more reflection on problems with the Song of Songs and ways feminist writers and communities might actively and sometimes critically engage the book.
The volume begins with a preface by Fontaine indicating the shifts in ...