{"product_id":"9781524551520","title":"The Motif of Search: Intertextuality of the Song of Songs and Gen 1-3 on Gender Relationship","description":"Scholars differ almost on every issue regarding the interpretation of the biblical book Song of Songs. While some see the book as a collection of love songs, others have chosen the allegorical method typical of rabbinic and patristic exegesis, which fails to consider the protagonists in the Song primarily as man and woman. The author proposes reading the Song of Songs literally (anthropologically) as a unified work comprising two parts (2, 8–5, 1 and 5, 2–8, 4) in which the theme of the latter part (love as victory over death) functions as intensification of the spousal theme in the former part. According to him, this approach highlights the theology of the book, especially when understood in the context of the story of origin in Genesis 1–3. It further raises some serious polemical questions on gender relationship.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176985870576,"sku":"9781524551520","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781524551520_p0.jpg?v=1763738216","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781524551520","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}