Published in 2019
158 pages
Abi Doukhan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and holds the Pearl and Nathan Halegua Family Initiative Chair in Ethics and Tolerance.
What is this book about?
Belonging to Hebrew Wisdom literature, the Song of Songs offers a subversive articulation of love and of relationship through its main female character, the Shulamite, which profoundly differs from traditional religious approaches to love and sexuality. Drawing from exegetical as well as philosophical sources, Abi Doukhan follows the Shulamite’s journey away from patriarchy to her own self-individuation as she discovers a wisdom of love is deeply personal and feminine. Doukhan distills from the song an ethics of love relevant to women in the twenty-first century.
