June 16, 2021
Shir Hashirim: The Love Poem of the Bible
Dr. Adele Berlin
Dr. Adele Berlin taught in the Winter Week 2011 program and several times in the Drishat Shalom Fellowship. She is the Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible Emerita at University of Maryland. Her special interests are literary approaches to the Bible and the theory and practice of biblical interpretation. She has published seven books, written over thirty scholarly articles, and edited three books.
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The Song of Songs has been interpreted midrashically in a variety of ways. These 3 sessions with Adele Berlin will analyze it as a love poem and compare and contrast it with other ancient love poetry.