Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_R_Kirk AT hotmail.com>]

Thank you.

Peter Kirk
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http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Penner [mailto:pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca]
> Sent: 26 November 2002 07:25
> To: 'Biblical Hebrew'; 'Peter Kirk'
> Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] FW: Song of songs commentaries
> 
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned Marvin Pope's Anchor Bible
commentary
> (Doubleday, 1977), but I guess everybody's busy at SBL. Tremper
Longman
> called it "one of the best commentaries written on any book of the
> Bible", with a 5-star rating. He connects the book with the love and
> death cults of the ancient world, but that's not the strength of the
> commentary. I suppose I'd call it "liberal", but I'm not sure what
that
> means any more. Pope does a good job of summarizing other viewpoints.
> 
> Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew
> Poetry)
> Ph.D. Student, McMaster University
> pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
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> 
> > What good commentaries are there on the Song of songs? What
> > are your favorites? I would be very interested in a small
> > description of them, especially on the following questions:
> > 1) Bibliographical data (name, author, publication year)
> > 2) What is the approach of the commentary (literal, allegory,
> > typology, other (what))?
> > 3) What is the basic theological outlook, if clearly present
> > (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant; conservative, liberal; etc)?
> > 4) What is the basic approach to the book (two lovers,
> > triangle)?