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Author: Elie Assis
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The essence of true love is in the yearning not in the consummation.

This literary analysis of the Song of Songs employs the methods of New Criticism. Each analysis aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems and the inner world of the characters. The analysis brings to the fore the highly sophisticated and the original creativity of the love poetry of the Song of Songs. In the introduction, the question is posed as to whether the Song of Songs is an anthology or one literary whole. After discussing the strengths and weakness of the various approaches, the author proposes a novel structure for the Book predicated on the various genres of the love poems.

Assis discerns poems of physical description, poems of adoration, and poems of yearning. In addition, he discerns what he takes to be a previously unrecognized genre, poems of rendezvous - a new structure which is based on a psychological understanding of passionate love is now discovered.

One of the undisputed dominant features of passionate love is the longing for union with the beloved. Based on this premise, the book is divided into five sections, each of which ends with an attempt to unite or in a union. The structure of the book reflects an emotional and inner development in the psyche of the lovers and in the relationship between them. Throughout the book the interrelationships between the various genres of the love poems, and the development of the characters is spelled out

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Title Flashes of Fire: A Literary Analysis of the Song of Songs
Author Elie Assis
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 304
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date 2009-09-01
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780567027641 / 0567027643
Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008029754
Dewey Decimal Code 222.906

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Citations

Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2009, Page 25

About the author

Elie Assis is the head of the Department of Bible Studies at Bar Ilan University. Among his scholarly work are his books "From Moses to Joshua and from the Miraculous to the Ordinary: A Literary Analysis of the Conquest Narrative in the Book of Joshua," Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2005 (Hebrew), and "Self-Interest or Communal Interest? An Ideology of Leadership in the Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah Narratives (Judg. 6-12) "(Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, 106), Brill Academic Press, Leiden, 2005.