Beit Avi Chai presents "The Song of Songs": a lecture series.
The Song of Songs is unique in the Bible. It 30 love poems differ in style and character from everything else in the Bible. In this series, we will read the Song of Songs together and get to know the special nature of the Bible's greatest love poem. Lecturer: Prof. Yair Zakovitch, Department of Bible, Hebrew University
Session 1: Song of Songs-Riddle of Riddles
Many of the book's lyrics are riddles, of a type that was once prevalent at wedding banquets. What are the secrets hidden in the Song of Songs?
Sunday, March 4, 19:00
Session 2: "I am asleep, but my heart is awake: Women as Dreamers
The Song of Songs brims with descriptions of dreams and daydreams, all of them by women. What do the women of the Song of Songs dream about at night?
Sunday, March 11, 20:00
Session 3: His Thousand Wives - The Image of the Woman The Song of Songs presents a bold and proactive woman, different from the image found in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, books also ascribed to Solomon. Why the difference?
Sunday, March 18, 20:00
Session 4: Song of Songs-Holy of Holies? On the prophets, use of different sections of the sections of this book and on the allegorical interpretation that made it possible for the Song of Songs to be included in the biblical canon
Sunday, March 25, 20:00
Admission: NIS 30, students NIS 20; NIS 100 for the series
This is a Hebrew-language only event.
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