Agenda:
Roll
Quizzes- did not get tuesdays quizzes back today.
Song of Songs
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Group Time- allotted 15 minutes of group work time
Research Reports- need to use scholarly journals; need to use citations properly (look at example); required revisions due october 16th
 
 

Song of Songs

    What does it mean? Basically it means "the best of the best" songs. When the Jews were driven out of Jerusalem they put together a text of holy writings  in order to  preserve them.  Now the question- how did this erotic love song get into the holy scripture? Plainly, it was beloved and they wanted to preserve it. It may have been performed as a play. Some say it is a epithalanium- a poem celebrating a marriage. This poem is very influential on secular western, jewish, and christian. This poem is written like  a "blazon", which means you are telling the whole world how beautiful your lover is. Usually the writer is a male, this poem is unique because the woman express her desire also. This poem is attributed to Solomon, not written by him. This poem is a man and a woman going back and forth expressing their desires using agricultural metaphors (i.e. your hair is like sheep's fur- you get the point). There are many symbols of wealth and surplus used in this poem (i.e. honey, milk, grapes, figs). The connection with archaic lyric here is that love is the most important thing in life.
 
 

Jeremiah

    In this piece, Jeremiah is prophecizing to the Jews- repent or be conquered. This reading wa assigned to give you an idea that at one time women had roles as priestesses.

Ezekiel

    This is Ezekiel speaking for God. He uses misogynist (woman hating) metaphors such as:
'turning woman over to be raped' is the same as 'turning Israel to be conquered'.  This type of misogynist writing and thinking is used in Christian writing also.
 

* Please make time to revise your paper with the women's studies writing center. Professor McBride has sent an email out with a link showing the hours for the center. If you have not recieved your research paper yet, Professor McBride will put them outside her door.
 
 
 

If you need more art research resources go to www.library.arizona.edu/users/juarezm/vita.html
 once there go to the Art Research link.