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In this volume, Crabbe and Lincicum assemble a set of essays that analyze the concept of love in ancient Judaism and Christianity from the minor prophets to Methodius of Olympus, with a central focus on the texts that came to make up the New Testament.
Jewish literature uses powerful symbols of romantic love to portray humanity's love of G‑d. In the Song of Songs , the shepherdess pursues her beloved. But when she finally is within reach, he is out of grasp.
20 Μαρ 2024 · From one of the earliest surviving ketubot, written in ancient Israel in the early second century CE, to the 1999 ketubah hanging in my parents’ own bedroom, Jewish art has decorated and celebrated marriage contracts and Jewish love.
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the love match. Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship.
A famous talk by the Lubavitcher Rebbe analyzes the lives of Noah, Abraham and Moses as milestones in humanity’s journey from an instinctive selfhood to a true concept of “love” for one’s fellow.
28 Φεβ 2021 · As the above analysis has demonstrated, love was widely regarded by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim mystics as a powerful energy that when properly directed could elevate a person’s soul to receive God and at the same time invite the Divine to be embraced by the ascending soul.
Beset by and forged out of a myriad illusions, associations and memories, love is revealed as a remorseless dialectic of anxiety and disappointment, hope and tedium, delight and dread – a dialectic resolved into some sort of stable attachment only by the final loss of the loved one, if at all.
