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9780198766445

The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity

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    9780198766445

  • ISBN10:

    0198766440

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-05-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Karl Shuve is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

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Abbreviations
Introduction
The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain
1. 'A Garden Enclosed, A Fountain Sealed': The Church as Closed Community in Cyprian and the Donatists
2. 1. 'As a Lily Among the Thorns': The Church as Mixed Community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine
3. 1. 'The Church is the Flesh of Christ': The Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elivra
The Song of Songs in Italy
4. 'Like the Holy Church, Unsullied by Intercourse': Ambrose, Virgins, and the Song
5. 'For Souls Know Not Covenants of Wedlock': Ascetic Ideology and Mystical Theology in Ambrose's Later Works
7. 'This Book Contains the Mysteries of Virginity': Jerome and the Making of Ascetic Community
Epilogue: Towards Medieval Exegesis

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