Aaron
192 , 193 , 194 –195 , 204 , 207 –208 , 214 , 237 –239 , 247
Abraham
204 , 206 , 207 –208 , 215 , 223 , 230 , 239 , 244
Abraham Ibn Ezra
222 , 247
active life, Song of Songs as call to over contemplation
13 , 14 , 95 , 99 , 124 , 127 –128 , 135 –139 , 143 , 146 , 148 –149 , 151 –156
Aelred of Rievaulx
163 –189
Akiva, Rabbi
3 , 20 , 239
Alan of Lille
177
Alcuin of York
77 –83 , 95 , 99
Allan, Isabel
324 –325
allegorical interpretations of the Song, modern
362 –366
Ambrose of Milan
42 –45 , 52 –61 , 157 –159 , 329 –330 , 342
Angela of Foligno
254
annihilation of the soul
269 , 272 –273
Anselm of Laon
13 , 124 –138 , 147
anti-Judaism in
133 –135
anti-Judaism in Song commentary
66 –68 , 82 –83 , 86 , 89 –90 , 97 –99 , 311 –312 , 320 –324
apple tree, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Apponius
42 , 65 , 76
Astell, Ann
8 , 14 , 43n4 , 96n121 , 157 –189 , 294n1 , 303n18 , 329n3
Athanasius of Alexandria
11 , 54
Augustine of Hippo
1 , 43 –46 , 49 –53 , 157 –158 , 362
Avot de Rabbi Natan
192
Babylonian Talmud
189 , 200 , 222
baptism
14 , 34 –35 , 44 –52 , 134 , 157 –158 , 160 , 171 , 175 , 176 , 328 , 329 , 330
Beatrice of Nazareth
254
Bede, the Venerable
71 , 73 –78 , 81 –86 , 97 , 99
beguines
255 –258
Bernard of Clairvaux
7 , 12 , 43 , 88 , 101 –122 , 123 , 253 , 369
on contemplation
106 –106
On the Steps of Humility and Pride
102 –03 , 113 –14 , 118
Sermons on the Song of Songs
102 –106 , 115 , 253
exegesis of the Song of Songs
102 –106
influence on Cistercian exegesis of the Song of Songs
106 –122
Beverly, Thomas
337 , 340
Beza, Theodore
6 , 345 , 352
biblical-moral school of interpretation
125 –138
Boyarin, Daniel
199 , 248
breasts, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Brightman, Thomas
339 , 354
Bruno of Segni
87 , 93 –97
Cambry, Jeanne de
268 –269
Carmelites
265 –268 , 275 –293
Carolingian Reform
77 –86 , 99 –100
Carr, David
361 –362
Catherine of Bologna
262 –263
Catherine of Genoa
263 –264
Catherine of Siena
261 –262
Certeau, Michel de
277 –286 , 289 –293
Chagall, Marc
2 , 324 , 372
chin-chuck
296 , 306 –308
Chronicles, i & ii, books of
215 , 311
Claire of Assisi
254 –255
Collings, John
331 –334 , 336 , 347 , 352 , 355
contemplation and the contemplative life, the Song of Songs as an invitation to
11 , 12 , 21 , 75 , 91 , 95 , 96 , 101 –104 , 111 , 113n64 , 115 , 116 , 123 , 232 , 255 , 265 , 275 , 278 , 289 , 290 , 340 , 352 , 363
Cotton, John
338 –339 , 342 –343
Credo, Lorenzo de
298
Cyprian of Carthage
2 , 44 –48
Cyril of Jerusalem
151 , 329
Damian, Peter
87 , 90 –94
Daniel al-Qumisi
225
Danielou, Jean
157 , 329
David
179 , 182 , 183 , 193 , 195 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 310 , 339 , 365
Deborah
195
Delitzsch, Franz
359
Donatist controversy
48 –52
dove / doves, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Durham, James
337 –338 , 340
ecclesial interpretation of the Song
72 –73 , 76 –77 , 81 –86 , 91 –100 , 129 , 252 –253
Ecclesiastes, book of
21 , 23 , 191n6 , 192 , 214 , 340 , 374
Elder, E. Rozanne
106 –108
enclosed garden, the, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Ephesians, book of
61 , 175 , 177 , 333 –334 , 355
Esther, book of
222 –224
Eucharist
14 , 16 , 84 , 91 , 93 , 94 , 122 , 157 , 174 , 175 , 183 , 252 , 259 , 315 , 327 –330 , 341 –357
Exodus, book of
194 , 222
exodus from Egypt
191 , 193 , 194
Exum, J. Cheryl
3n4 , 361 , 367 , 378
Ezekiel, book of
227
Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona
238 –246 , 247
Fabriano, Gentile de
301 –305
Farrar, Frederic
6 –7
First John, book of
33 , 158 , 347
foxes, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Fulton, Rachel
81n38 , 118n85 , 159n16 , 160n18 , 177n48
gazelles, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Genesis, book of
114 , 242 , 251 , 298
Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom)
231 –238 , 247
Gertrude of Helfta
259 –261
Gilbert of Hoyland
102 , 109 –112 , 369
Sermons on the Song of Songs
109 –112
Gill, John
340 –341
Ginsburg, Christian
359 , 368
Glossa Ordinaria
125 , 135 –155
Gouge, William
337
Gregorian Reform
86 –100
Gregory of Elvira
42 –44 , 63 –69
Gregory the Great
48 , 73 , 75 –77 , 81 , 85 –87 , 97 , 186 , 251
Gregory of Nyssa
10 –11 , 18 , 22 –25 , 33 –41
mystical union
34 –39
perpetual progress of the soul
37 –39
Platonism
24
wound of love
33 –41
Guyon, Jeanne
271 –274
Gyffard, George
345 –346
Hadewijch of Antwerp
255 –257
Haimo of Auxerre
72n6 , 73 , 83 , 89 , 94 , 99
Hannah
195 –196
Henry, Matthew
343 , 355
Herder, Johann Gottfried
6 , 16 , 360
Hildegard of Bingen
14 , 250 –253
Letters of Hildegard of Bingen
251
Liber vite meritorum
250 –253
Liber vite operum
250 –253
Scivias
250 –253
Hincmar of Rheims
79 , 83 , 92
Hinsey, Ellen
288
Hippolytus of Rome
4
historical-critical approaches to the Song of Songs
358 –362
historical-prophetic interpretation of the Song of Songs
338 –340 , 354
Honorious Augustodunensis
177 , 253
Hosea
333 , 355 , 365
Hugh of St. Cher
13 , 127 , 148 –155
images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of:
apple tree
82 , 90 , 98 , 162 , 252 , 266 , 297
breasts
13 , 30 , 66 , 73 , 77 , 92 , 93 , 192 –194 , 195 , 200 , 204 –206 , 207 –208 , 214 , 217 , 218 , 221 , 224 , 228 –229 , 230 , 236 –237 , 244 –245 , 246 , 247 –248 , 266 , 295 , 320 , 378
dove
47 , 67 , 90 , 91 , 128 , 137 –138 , 140 , 142 –144 , 166 –167 , 169 , 171 , 175 , 177 , 179 –180 , 182 , 194 , 235 , 237 , 260 , 284 , 304 , 310n27 , 320 , 324
enclosed garden, the
47 , 140 –142 , 194 , 200 , 203 , 214 , 230 , 234 , 247 , 378
foxes
83 , 89 , 94 , 132 –133 , 170 , 176 , 297 , 336 , 344
gazelles
244 , 294
kiss
28 , 34 –35 , 59 , 88 , 105 –106 , 112n60 , 118 –119 , 121 , 122 , 169 , 226 , 237 , 240 , 241 , 251 , 252 , 255 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 260 , 266 , 267 , 270 , 272 , 280 , 296 , 301 , 306 , 308 , 310 , 312 , 330 , 345 , 346
lily / lilies
51 , 87n63 , 68 , 91 , 98 , 136 , 173 , 182 , 183 , 251 , 256 , 301 , 315 , 335 , 341 , 348
myrrh
58 , 159 , 165 , 168 , 170 , 171 , 173 , 185 , 297 –298 , 320 , 330
pomegranates
87n63 , 90 , 196 , 297 –298 , 299
Shulamite, the
263n50 , 359 , 367 , 371 , 378 –379
teeth
73 , 140 –142 , 194 , 200 , 203 , 214 , 230 , 234 , 247 , 378
vineyards
68 , 77 , 83 , 89 , 94 , 132 –133 , 162 , 170 , 176 , 179 , 218 , 297 , 308 , 344 , 365 , 370
wine
30 , 66 , 179 , 185 , 221 , 253 , 257 , 266 , 297 , 299 , 310n27 , 344 , 376
wine cellar
88 , 116 , 171 , 185 , 255 , 257 , 266 , 297 , 299
interreligious dialogue on the Song of
Songs
368 –370
Isaac ibn Sahula
238
Isaiah
201
Jacobi, Johann Fredrich
359
Jelinger, Christopher
340 –341
Jeremiah, book of
201
Jerome
11 , 52 –54 , 60 –62 , 64 , 85 , 91 , 92
Jewish and Christian dialogue on the Song of Songs
369 –370
John, gospel of
63 , 66 , 139 , 159 , 161 , 169 , 173 , 175 , 176 , 180 , 182 , 251 , 262 , 263n54 , 298
John of the Cross
15 , 275 –293
composing a “new scripture”
276 , 279 –280 , 285 , 289
“dark night of the soul,”
278
experience as primary text
283 –285
“poetics of love,”
281 –285
“poetics of the silent word,”
290 –293
Spiritual abandonment
277 –281
Spiritual Canticle
275 –293
John of Ford
12 , 102 , 112 –117 , 369
Sermons on the Final Verses of the Song of Songs
112 –117
John of Mantua
87 , 93 –97
Joshua
195 , 203 , 204 , 230 , 239
Joshua, book of
215
Julian of Eclanum
63 , 76
Julian of Norwich
262
Karaites
222 , 224 , 247
Karaite exegesis
224 –231
Kings, i & ii, books of
215
kiss, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Kristeva, Julia
29 , 366 –367
Lamentations, book of
213
Langton, Stephen
126 –128 , 143 –148
Leclercq, Jean
101 , 106 , 115 , 123 , 124
lily / lilies, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
liturgical contexts for Song of Songs interpretation
119 –122 , 157 –188 , 312 –316 , 375 –377
Lubac, Henri de
110
Luke, gospel of
298 , 315 , 375
Luther, Martin
5 –6 , 335 , 338
Marguerite d’Arbouze
269
Marian interpretation of the Song
121 –122 , 123 , 158 –159 , 161 , 172 –173 , 177 –185 , 253 , 302 –305 , 308 , 314 , 336
Marie de l’Incarnation
265 , 270 –271
Mark, gospel of
174 , 263n54 , 298
material religion, Song of Songs in
296 –300 , 305
Matthew, gospel of
167 , 182 , 262 , 298
Matter, E. Ann
1n1 , 8 –9 , 42 43 , 47n20 , 60 , 64n96 , 69 , 72 , 90n84 , 83n48 , 85 , 87n61 , 90n84 , 160n18 , 117n85 , 294n1 , 303n18 , 354
McGinn, Bernard
15 –15 , 72n7 , 202n4 , 110n43 , 112 , 114n71 , 163n34 , 249 –274
Mechthild of Hackeborn
258 –251
Mechthild of Magdeburg
257 –258
Mekhilta Beshallah
194
Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael
193
Mekhilta Pish
193 , 197
minne
257 –258
Miriam
194 –196 , 214 –215 , 237
Mishnah
209 –210
monastic interpretation of the Song of Songs
101 –122
modern literature, music, and film, Song of Songs in
370 –375
Morrison, Toni
2 , 371
Moses
192 , 193 , 194 –195 , 203 , 204 , 206 –208 , 214 , 237 , 239 , 247
Murphy, Roland
4n6 , 8 , 359n1 , 360n9 , 361
myrrh, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Naciemento, Cecilia del
267 –268
Natan, Rabbi
192 –197
Nicholas of Lyra
337
O’Connor, Sinead
2 , 374
Ohly, Frederich
8 –9 , 120
Origen of Alexandria
2 , 4 –5 , 10 –11 , 18 –22 , 26 –34 , 42 –44 , 54 , 59 –64 , 69 , 359 , 363
allegorical interpretation of Song of Songs
26 –32 , 39 –40
ecclesiology
28 –30
eros
28 –32
mysticism
26 , 31 –33
“wound of love,”
26 –33 , 39 –41
Owen, John
351 –352
Peshat school of exegesis
211 –222
Peter the Chanter
13 , 125 –128 , 138 –143 , 149 –150
Pévernage, Andreas
311
pomegranates, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of
)
Pope, Marvin
1n1 , 2 , 7 , 8 , 160n21 , 359n1 , 360
Porete, Marguerite
254
preaching, as action and mission recommended by the Song of Songs
13 , 74 , 77 , 81 , 83 , 86 , 90 , 100 , 108 , 124 –131 , 133 –155
Preston, John
333 , 343
Proverbs, book of
21 , 23 , 96 , 97 , 149 , 192 , 226 , 227 , 232 , 236 , 340
Psalms, book of
25 , 61 , 93 , 124 , 163 , 203 , 210 , 217 , 230 , 242 –243 , 251 , 254 , 263 , 310 , 377
Puritans
16 , 327 –357
Radbertus, Paschasius
71 , 80 , 84 –86 , 91 , 92 , 99
Rahab
214 –216
Rashbam (Samuel ben Meir)
216 –222
Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac)
212 –216 , 220 –221 , 247
Ratramnus of Corbie
84 –85
Revelation, book of
63n90 , 72 , 86 , 100 , 185 , 298 , 301 , 303 –305 , 315 , 329 , 333 , 345 , 354 –356
Ricouer, Paul
356 , 357n99 , 364
Riedlinger, Helmut
8 –9 , 72n9
Robert of Tombelaine
87 –90 , 9 , 97
Robotham, John
335 –338
Rous, Francis
333
Rowley, H.H.
4n6 , 362
Rule of St. Benedict
85 , 101 , 102 –106 , 111 –112 , 120
sacraments:
see, “baptism” and “Eucharist”
Sanhedrin
193 , 194 , 196 , 202 , 203 , 209 , 210 , 214 , 224 , 247
Sankt Trudperter Hohelied
253
Sarah
206 , 207 , 239
Scheper, George
1n1
scholastic interpretation of the Song of Songs
123 –156
Sefer Hasidim
220
Shekhinah
238 , 241 –246
Shepard of Hermas, The
29
Shepard, Thomas
344
Sibbes, Richard
334 –336 , 343 , 347 –349 , 352 –353
Smalley, Beryl
124 , 126 –127
Solomon
5 , 12 , 21 , 25 , 27 , 71 , 75 , 84 , 92 , 94 , 97 –98 , 152 , 182 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 191 , 195 –196 , 213 , 226 , 238 , 295 , 306 , 310 –311
as a type of Christ
92 , 182 , 184 , 186 , 328 , 340
Song of Songs Rabbah
194 –195 , 197 , 198 –210
Targum
190 –198 , 202 , 205 , 209 –210 , 214
Taylor, Edward
349 –351 , 353 –356
teeth, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
Teresa of Avila
265 –267
Interior Castle
265
Vita
265 , 266
Meditations on the Song of Songs
65 –67
textiles
312
Theodore of Mopsuestia
25 , 362
Theodoret of Cyrus
10 , 25
Teresa of Avila
14 , 277 –278
Thomas Perseigne
12 , 102 , 117 –122
In canticum canticorum
117 –122
Tiferet
238 –239 , 241 , 243 –246
Trible, Phyllis
366
Turner, Denys
43n4 , 48n20 , 117n85
The Twelve Gardens
263
Tyndale, William
335
union, with God or Christ
12 , 18 , 26 , 28 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 36 , 38 , 39 –41 , 58 , 64 –65 , 92 , 101 , 103 , 105n15 , 163 , 169 , 171 , 231 , 232 , 238 , 240 , 241 , 252 , 254 –255 , 259 –260 , 265 , 266 –267 , 268 –269 , 272 –273 , 279 , 290 , 292 , 312 , 329 , 330 , 333 –334 , 340 , 342 –343 , 348 , 349 , 353 –354 , 356
Varano, Camilla Battista da
263
vineyard / vineyards, interpretations of (
see
“images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
virginity, consecrated
52 –69
visual exegesis
15 , 294 –326
Walsh, Carey Ellen
361 –362 , 379
wasfs
203 , 204 , 210 , 217 , 224 , 230 , 243 , 350 –352
Watts, Isaac
327 –328 , 341 , 367
Weems, Renita
367
Whiting, Samuel
353
Willard, Samuel
343 –344 , 353
William of St. Thierry
102 , 106 –109
on “unity of spirit,”
108
Exposition of the Song of Songs
108 –109
Vita Bernardi
107
wine, interpretations of (
see
, “images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
wine cellar, interpretations of (
see
, “images in the Song of Songs, interpretations of”
)
wound of love
26 –33 , 33 –41 , 279 –284 , 317 –320
Yefet ben Eli
225 –231
Zohar
238 , 247