This book maps the landscape of early rabbinic interpretation of the Song of Songs by charting the interpretations contained in Tannaitic interpretation of the Torah (Halachic Midrashim). In a departure from scholarship that classifies rabbinic interpretation of the Song as purely allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the early sages' typological interpretation. Song was understood in ways similar to how one might have read an epic poem in antiquity and conveys an important rabbinic theological idea-that ...
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This book maps the landscape of early rabbinic interpretation of the Song of Songs by charting the interpretations contained in Tannaitic interpretation of the Torah (Halachic Midrashim). In a departure from scholarship that classifies rabbinic interpretation of the Song as purely allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the early sages' typological interpretation. Song was understood in ways similar to how one might have read an epic poem in antiquity and conveys an important rabbinic theological idea-that despite the catastrophes of 70 and 135 C.E., God still loves Israel and will right the catastrophe in his own time.
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