Vol. 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
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
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
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 (and 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