By Andre Villeneuve

In Nuptial Symbolism in moment Temple Writings, the hot testomony and Rabbinic Literature, André Villeneuve examines the traditional Jewish inspiration of the covenant among God and Israel, portrayed as a wedding dynamically relocating via salvation background. This nuptial covenant used to be tested in Eden yet broken through sin; it was once restored on the Sinai theophany, perpetuated within the Temple liturgy, and anticipated to arrive its ultimate consummation on the finish of days.

The authors of the recent testomony followed an analogous key moments of salvation background to explain the spousal courting among Christ and the Church. of their typological remedy of those motifs, they confirmed an exegetical framework that will count on the 4 senses of Scripture later followed via patristic and medieval commentators.

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The hope of their salvation is inseparable from the expectation of a return from exile: mother Jerusalem is reassured that her sons will come back to her (4:23, 36–37; 5:5–6) in a glorious eschatological event that recalls some of the key texts of second and third Isaiah: Jerusalem will take off the garment of her sorrow and affliction and “put on forever the beauty of the glory from God” along with “the robe of the righteousness of God” and “the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting” (5:1–2; cf.

69 Horsley, “Spiritual Marriage with Sophia,” 34. 70 On the correlations between wisdom and eros / the Song of Songs, cf. Murphy, The Tree of Life, 78–79, 106–107; Niccacci, “Wisdom as Woman, Wisdom and Man, Wisdom and God”; Camp, Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs, 99–103; Kingsmill, The Song of Songs and the Eros of God, 46–74. 30 Chapter 1 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord. (Prov 18:22)71 Moreover, the language of love applied to Lady Wisdom finds many parallels in the passionate language of the Song of Songs.

In Sir 51 he is described in the same terms as Wisdom is described in Sir 24. See below, p. 87. Introduction 3. 4. 31 Wisdom as the cloud/divine presence dwelling in the Tabernacle and in the Temple; Wisdom’s eschatological destination at the end of days. These four milestones or “moments” in salvation history underline the interplay between Wisdom’s particularism and universalism that were mentioned above. Eden represents the common origin of all mankind. Sinai is the moment of the birth of Israel as a nation and their adoption by God as a “kingdom of priests and holy nation” (Exod 19:6) – later understood as the moment and place of the espousals between God and Israel.

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