The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality

The arduous task of queering the Song of Songs, a book that is ostensibly an unequivocal celebration of male-female sexual love, was accomplished over many centuries by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church (as well as by Jewish Sages of blessed memory, though they were hampered by a modesty and restraint to which their Christian cousins were seldom subject). Night after night in their cells, by flickering candlelight, they queeried the Song of Solomon, strenuously inquiring after its spiritual meaning and confidently setting it forth. And as they did so their austere cells were transformed into lavish theaters. What follows is a series of preliminary portraits of some of the more remarkable performers

Art · Art history · Human sexuality · Judaism · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Portrait · Sexual desire · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Gender Studies · History · Psychology

• Annunciations

  Open Access•Caleb Froehlich, Greville Corbett•Annunciations•2019

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• La historia del mal de amores en la literatura hispanohebrea

  Open Access•Eunate Mirones Lozano•Revista de História da Sociedade…•2022

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• Sacred Art Music in the Catholic Liturgy

  Open Access•Miguel Ferguson•Annunciations•2019

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• The Lattice and the Looking Glass

  C Meredith•Journal of the American Academy…•2012

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• Pure Pleasure

  James C Staples•Exemplaria•2022

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• Synagoga conversa

  Jérémy Cohen•Speculum•2004

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• Vested Interests

  Marjorie B Garber, Marjorie Garber•Vested Interests•1997

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• Unheroic conduct

  Daniel Boyarin•Unheroic conduct•1997

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• The Sentences of Sextus

  Open Access•Sextus Sextus, Henry Chadwick•Sentences of Sextus•1959

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• Rabelais and his world

  Mikhail Bakhtin, H Iswolsky•Applied Theatre Reader•2020

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• Rabbi Yoḥanan and Origen on the Song of Songs

  Open Access•Reuven Kimelman•Harvard Theological Review•1980

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• A Note On Origen's Self-Mutilation

  R P C Hanson•Vigiliae Christianae•1965

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• A Note on Origen's Self-Mutilation

  R P C Hanson, Russell Hanson•Vigiliae Christianae•1966

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• The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross

  Gordon Ragle, Kieran Kavanaugh et al.•Hispania•1966

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• The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus

  William Thomas Walsh•Thought•1947

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• The Practice and Prohibition of Self-Castration in Early Christianity

  Daniel F Caner•Vigiliae Christianae•1997

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• Que(e)rying Religion

  Melissa M Wilcox, Gary David Comstock et al.•Sociology of Religion•2002

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