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SUMMARY:Judy Chicago and the Vision of Love in the Song of Songs - J. Cher
 yl Exum
DTSTART:20081028T171500Z
DTEND:20081028T181500Z
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DESCRIPTION:- J. Cheryl Exum is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Unive
 rsity of Sheffield\, and the author of numerous scholarly works on the Bib
 le. Her books include Tragedy and Biblical Narrative\; Fragmented Women: F
 eminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narrative\; Plotted\, Shot\, and Painted
 : Cultural Representations of Biblical Women\; and\, most recently\, The S
 ong of Songs\, A Commentary. She locates the poetic genius of the Song in 
 its ability to bring love to life on the page before us - immortalizing lo
 ve as 'strong as death' - and to its unusual portrayal of love from both a
  woman's and a man's point of view. When she first saw Voices from the Son
 g of Songs at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2001\, she was fascinated by the w
 ay that Judy Chicago\, like the biblical poet\, juxtaposes female and male
  voices to express the mutuality of love. It is mutuality such as we find 
 nowhere else in the Bible or\, according to Chicago\, in art history\, whe
 re the focus is almost entirely on male desire.\n
LOCATION:Vivien Stewart Room\, Murray Edwards College
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