The Journal of Scriptural
Reasoning
Volume 3, No. 2 — August 2003
Healing Words:
The Song of Songs and
the Path of Love
General Editors
William Elkins, Drew University
Willie Young, King's College, Pennsylvania
Associate Editor
Kurt Richardson, McMaster University
Guest Editors
Dov Nelkin, University of Virginia
Basit Koshul, Concordia College
Chad Pecknold, University of Cambridge
Founding Editor
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
General Editor's
Preface
Willie Young, King's College, Pennsylvania
ARTICLES
Editor's
Introduction to the Articles
Dov Nelkin, University of Virginia
Reading the Song
Iconographically
Ellen Davis, Duke University Divinity School
Thinking Of/With
Scripture:
Struggling for the Religious Significance of the Song
of Songs
Alon Goshen-Gottstein, The Elijah School for the
Study of Wisdom in World Religions, Jerusalem
On the "Path of
Love" Towards the Divine:
A Journey with Muslim Mystics
Omid Safi, Colgate University
RESPONSES
Reflections on the
Commentaries
Basit Bilal Koshul, Concordia College
Flesh and
Word:
Notes Towards a Postcritical Reading of the 'Song of
Songs'
Oliver Davies, University of Wales
Divine
Love:
Roots and Manifestations
Muhammad Suheyl Umar, Iqbal Academy, Pakistan
Song of Songs Rabba
and the Mind-Body Problem
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
The Wisdom of Love
for God's Sake:
Interpreting the Papers, and Our Scriptures,
Together
David F. Ford, University of Cambridge
The Other as
Mirror:
Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutics of Ibn
Al-Arabi
Ahmed Afzaal, Drew University
Peeking into the
Holy of Holies
Dov Nelkin, University of Virginia
The Song of
Songs
Daniel W. Hardy, University of Cambridge
The Path of Love
Toward the Divine
Qamar-ul Huda, Boston College
Transforming
Love
Rachel Muers (Girton College, University of
Cambridge, UK), for the Cambridge Society for
Biblical Reasoning
Love, Divine Life
and the Divine in Life
Basit Koshul, Concordia College
Response to
"Thinking of/With Scripture" by Alon
Goshen-Gottstein, "On the 'Path of Love' Toward the
Divine" by Omid Safi, and "Reading the Song
Iconographically" by Ellen Davis
Barry Harvey, Baylor University
'The One Thing
Needful'
Ben Quash, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
The Impossible
Object:
Learning to Read the Signs of Love
Chad Pecknold, University of Cambridge
"Do not stir up
stir up or awaken love....": A Response to the
Papers; "…before
it is ready": A Post-Meeting Commentary
Jon Cooley, Centre College
Songs of the
Song:
Love's Inscription in Abrahamic Texts and
Commentary
Kurt Anders Richardson, McMaster University
McMaster Divinity College
Postcritical
Fulfillment and Deferral:
"Do Not Awaken Love Too Soon"
William Wesley Elkins, The Theological School, Drew
University
The Song of
Songs:
From Affliction to Healing through the Text
Willie Young, King's College, Pennsylvania
Report on the
National Society for Scriptural Reasoning Meeting,
Toronto 2003: Song of Songs
Chad Pecknold, University of Cambridge
© 2003, Society for
Scriptural Reasoning
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