Flashes of fire : a literary analysis of the Song of Songs - Assis, Eliyahu (New York : T & T Clark, 2009)
The unity of the book: song or songs? -- Introduction -- Overview of the research -- Lack of plot -- Uniformity in the book -- Schematic structures of the book -- A proposal for a new direction -- The method -- The individual poems and their categories -- A new proposal for the structure of the book -- The superscription (1:1) -- Unit I: (1:2-8): The initial courtship -- Poem 1. 1:2-4 -- Poem 2. 1:5-6 -- Poem 3. 1:7-8 -- Unit II: (1:9 - 2:17): The second courtship -- Poem 1. 1:9-11 and 1:12-14 -- Poem 2. 1:15-2:3 -- Poem 3. 2:4-7 -- Poem 4. 2:8-17 -- Unit III: (3:1 - 5:1) : The climax -- Poem 1. 3:1-5 -- Poem 2. 3:6 -- Poem 3. 3:7-11 -- Poem 4. 4:1-7 -- Poem 5. 4:8-5:1 -- Unit IV: (5:2 - 6:3): The ebbing of love -- Part 1 of the poem. 5:2-8 -- Part 2 of the poem. 5:9-16 -- Part 3 of the poem. 6:1-3 -- Unit V: (6:4 - 8:14): Resolution -- Poem 1. 6:4-10 -- Poem 2. 6:11-12 -- Poem 3. 7:1-10 (6:13-7:9) -- Poem 4. 7:11 (10)-8:5 -- Poem 5. 8:6-7 -- Poem 6. 8:8-10 -- Poem 7. 8:11-12 -- Poem 8. 8:13-14 -- Summary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc