By Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Peter S. Hawkins
Scrolls of affection is a ebook of unions. Edited via a Jew and a Christian who're united by way of a shared ardour for the Bible and a standard literary hermeneutic, it joins biblical scrolls and gathers round them a various group of interpreters. It brings jointly Ruth and the track of Songs, likely disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them via a few of the methodological and theological views. Respectful of conventional biblical scholarship, the gathering of essays strikes past it; alert to modern traits, the quantity returns venerable interpretive culture to heart degree. most importantly, it truly is interfaith. although Jews and Christians proportion a standard textual content within the Hebrew Scripture, the 2 groups have learn their Bibles in isolation from each other, in lack of understanding of the richness of the other's traditions of analyzing. Scrolls of affection brings the 2 traditions into discussion, enriching validated modes of interpretation with unconventional ones. the result's a quantity that units rabbinic, patristic, and medieval readings along feminist, psychoanalytic, and autobiographical ones, combining ancient, literary, and textual feedback with numerous creative reinterpretations-wood cuts and paper cuts, poetry and fiction. the various works are scholarly, with the considered necessary footnotes to attract readers to extra inquiry: others are extra reflective than analytic, permitting readers to work out what it potential to reside in detail with Scripture. As a team spirit, the gathering provides Ruth and track of Songs not just as historical texts that should be precious yet as outdated worlds able to begetting the new.
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Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs
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16151$ $CH1 10-13-06 10:50:12 PS PAGE 6 E L L E N F . D AV I S woman whose life has been shattered, Ruth is herself extremely vulnerable. She is the vulnerable protector. In that role, she stands for countless women throughout history and around the world who, though living in precarious situations, take on the additional risk and struggle of caring for the very old or the very young or the sick or the permanently frail. esed, Ruth teaches us something about covenant relationship that might not otherwise be clear, although I am convinced that many parts of the Bible point to it: that the real test of covenant relationship is how one vulnerable person treats another who is likewise vulnerable, or (by extension) how one people, one nation that is troubled, frightened, terrorized, takes the risk of recognizing its kinship with another vulnerable, beleaguered people.
Is that it affords the translator an alternative to committing treason through showing what a text means. The truth is that any text worth translating with real care undoubtedly means more than one thing by what it says. George Steiner, who in this generation has probably reflected most carefully on reading and translating (and shown that those are not separate activities), says: We must read as thought the text before us had meaning. This will not be a single meaning if the text is a serious one, if it makes us answerable to its force of life.
Of Tamar . . Salmon begot Boaz of Rahab; Boaz begot Obed of Ruth . . David begot Solomon of Uriah’s wife” (Matth. 1:3–5). This record is striking. The women mentioned all had tainted reputations, both for their perceived sexual impropriety and for their status as aliens. Only Bathsheba was an Israelite, although Matthew hastens to note her as “the wife of Uriah”—the Hittite, being married to one. The Ethical Theme of the Feminine Unconventional It is worth noting that when any society sets ritual purity as its ideal, it is women who suffer most.