Author: KAPLAN, JONATHAN
Title: My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 2015. 225 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. Hebrew Bible. Rabbinical Literature. Judaica. Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced understanding of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs employing typological interpretation in order to correlate Scripture with exemplary events in Israel's history. ISBN: 9780199359332

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