Animals and Sexuality in the Song of Songs

Jared Beverly

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Animals and Sexuality in the Song of Songs

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Jared Beverly. Animals and Sexuality In the Song of Songs. ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a5a7fb39-59f4-417f-bf4f-77913bea8819?locale=es.

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J. Beverly. Animals and Sexuality in the Song of Songs. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a5a7fb39-59f4-417f-bf4f-77913bea8819?locale=es

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Jared Beverly. Animals and Sexuality In the Song of Songs. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/a5a7fb39-59f4-417f-bf4f-77913bea8819?locale=es.

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Jared Beverly

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As ecological and animal hermeneutics have contributed much to the field of biblical studies recently, less attention has been paid to the Song of Songs. This dissertation examines the nonhuman animal imagery of the Song alongside both biblical scholarship and animal studies. It argues that the Song presents human sexuality as a part of nonhuman animal sexuality, a shared field of experience rather than a superior human domain over an inferior animal domain. In addition, this common experience of sexuality across human and nonhuman animals has the effect of blurring the lines between species, making it unclear where the human ends and the animal begins. The dissertation works through the Song’s animals group by group, beginning with wild herbivores, then domesticated herbivores, then predatory mammals, and finally birds, showing how the love poetry of the Song can be read in ways that question the human/animal binary. It concludes by reflecting that if the lovers of the Song can so value one another, perhaps also the nonhuman animals they use to represent one another deserve ethical consideration.

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