Performed in three languages (English, Russian, and Hebrew), featuring traditional liturgical chanting heard in synagogues ...

Jonathan Kaplan has received funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my ...

Song of Songs is a mosaic of love poems which has a loosely defined plot. The original text does not include indications for each speaker, but most translations include notes naming the Bride and ...

At age 10, I found myself learning to chant, by heart, a chapter of the Song of Songs from the Hebrew Bible, which takes the form of a dialogue between two unnamed lovers. In the chapter, he lavishes ...

Some exegetes and preachers have tried to persuade us that the Song of Songs is an elaborate allegory about the love of God for Israel or of Christ for the church. Yes, the book may have something to ...

Grief for a lost love is the unhealed wound at the core of this play by Agnes Borinsky, which takes a disquieting turn into the underworld. By Laura Collins-Hughes A few sheets of colored tissue paper ...