Anciens et Modernes face au Cantique des cantiques. Un impossible dialogue?
(2006) XVIIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) — Location: Leiden (NL) (1.August.2004)
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- Critical scholars tend to dismiss the patristic allegorical/theological reading of the Song out of hand in favor of an exclusively anthropological/erotic interpretation of the work. A. here argues that such a procedure keeps such scholars from appreciating the values of the patristic approach to the Song. In particular, the Fathers' explicit articulation of their presuppositions in reading the Song challenges contemporary scholars to be equally explicit and self-conscious about their own presuppositions.Morever, the Fathers' approach with its emphasis on reader involvement, recognition of the Song's openness to multiple readings (they do not, e.g., exclude the element of intra-human love in the Song, but see this as pointing beyond itself to the love between God and people), and their conscious search for the (spiritual) benefits the Song has to offer their readers/hearers all give the Fathers' approach a distinctly (post-)modern flavor and make it worthy of a new look by contemporary scholars. [Abstracted by: Christopher T. Begg]
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Auwers, J.-M. (2006). Anciens et Modernes face au Cantique des cantiques. Un impossible dialogue? In André Lemaire (ed.), Congress Volume Leiden 2004 (p. p. 235-253). Brill. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/225249