Womanist Wisdom in the Song of Songs : Secrets of an African Princess

Belonging to Hebrew Wisdom literature, the Song of Songs offers a fresh look at love and relationships 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 that is deeply personal and feminine. 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.