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Jonathan Kaplan (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

My Perfect One

Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs

Jonathan Kaplan (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)

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Oxford University Press Inc
24 September 2015
Old Testaments; Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies
Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan advocates a more nuanced reading of the approach of the early sages, who read Song of Songs through a mode of typological interpretation concerned with the correspondence between Scripture and ideal events in Israel's history. Throughout the book Kaplan explores ways in which this portrayal helped shape a model vision of rabbinic piety as well as of an idealized vision of their beloved, God, in the wake of the destruction, dislocation, and loss the Jewish community experienced in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The archetypal and idealized language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual landscape in which to imagine an idyllic construction of Israel's relationship to her beloved, marked by mutual devotion and fidelity. Through this approach to Song of Songs, the Tannaim helped lay the foundations for later Jewish thought of a robust theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 160mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   488g
ISBN:   9780199359332
ISBN 10:   0199359334
Pages:   244
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jonathan Kaplan (Ph.D., Harvard University) is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously he was a Jacob & Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in the Judaic Studies Program at Yale University.

Reviews for My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs

[Kaplan] argues cohesively for a necessary window of discussion in the development of rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs, which fits into a larger framework for readers of rabbinics to see the tannaitic period as innovative not only in the realm of law but also in theological development. * Daniel Rosenberg, H-Net Reviews * Kaplan's book is a fine study of an important and engaging subject. It highlights a beautiful body of texts from a pivotal moment in not only Jewish history but the history of biblical exegesis broadly speaking. * Laura Suzanne Lieber, Reviews of the Enoch Seminar * Highly focused and erudite, Kaplan's work is to be commended for providing insight into a heretofore underdeveloped area of research. * Joshua Madden, Reading Religion *


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