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Eros as Interpretation: Isaac ibn Sahula's Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Invention of a Kabbalistic Hermeneutics

Noily, Jesse
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin167268107922709

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2022, BA, Oberlin College, Religion.
Isaac ibn Sahula was a marginal figure in the Castile community of medieval Spanish kabbalists, which included those mystics who would come to compose the groundbreaking book of Zohar toward the end of the thirteenth century. While Ibn Sahula is best known for his anthology of animal fables, this essay casts his more obscure Commentary on the Song of Songs (ca. 1283) as a key document in tracing the genealogy of the Song's interpretation in classical Kabbalah. Through the translation and analysis of two exemplary sections of the Commentary, this essay will discuss its uniquely kabbalistic reading of the Song as a love story between the secrets of Torah and their interpreter and ultimately advance a thesis locating Ibn Sahula's "erotics of reading" in its broader medieval context.
Sam Shonkoff (Committee Member)
Corey Ladd Barnes (Advisor)
43 p.
Judaic Studies; Religion
Song of Songs; Reception history; Kabbalah; Isaac ibn Sahula; Zohar

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  • Noily, J. (2022). Eros as Interpretation: Isaac ibn Sahula's Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Invention of a Kabbalistic Hermeneutics [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin167268107922709

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Noily, Jesse. Eros as Interpretation: Isaac ibn Sahula's Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Invention of a Kabbalistic Hermeneutics. 2022. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin167268107922709.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Noily, Jesse. "Eros as Interpretation: Isaac ibn Sahula's Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Invention of a Kabbalistic Hermeneutics." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin167268107922709

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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