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Gordis, Robert, 1908- . Song of Songs a study, modern translation, and commentary / by Robert Gordis. series New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1954.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1485.3 .G64 1954

Robert Gordis is a Jewish scholar. He takes the position that the Song of Songs is a collection of poetry from various authors and venues.

I'm in the process of creating an annotated bibliography of Song of Songs interpretation here.
Song of songs in the targumic tradition : vocalized Aramaic text with facing English translation and Ladino versions / [edited by] Isaac Jerusalmi. 1878191039 series Cincinnati : Ladino Books, c1993.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1484.A7 J47 1993

This volume has several versions of the Aramaic Targum translated into early modern Ladino. Jerusalmi has translated the Ladino into English and provided multiple useful tools for understanding the text.

Sermon on the Mount through the centuries / edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, Stephen R. Spencer. 9781587432057 (pbk.) series Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, c2007.

Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.3 .R43 2007

This is a survey of some major Christian interpreters of the Sermon on the Mount, including John Chrysostom, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Dante and Chaucer, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, C. H. Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Howard Yoder, John Paul II, Leonardo Boff, and John R. W. Stott.

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Five Megilloth: a new English translation / translation of text, Rashi, and other commentaries by A.J. Rosenberg. 1880582015 (vol. 1) series. New York : Judaica Press, 1992.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1309.A3 R67 1992

This volume contains the Hebrew text of the Rabbinic Bible for Esther, The Song of Songs, and Ruth.  It includes an English  translation of the Biblical text, the Targum, Rashi, and selected commentary from other Rabbinic sources.


. Song of songs: tr. from the original Hebrew, with a commentary, historical and critical, by Christian D. Ginsburg. series London : Longman, 1857.
Call#: Van Pelt Library 220.35v EG


This is a listing of music related to the Song of Songs that was composed in medieval or early modern Europe and is currently available on CDs.

. Perspectives on the Song of Songs = Perspektiven der Hoheliedauslegung / herausgegeben von Anselm C. Hagedorn. 3110176327 (cl.) series Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2005.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS410 .Z5 Bd.346

This is a collection of recent essays "that aim at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this biblical book in later literature."

Engammare, Max. . Qu'il me baise des baisiers de sa bouche : le Cantique des cantiques aL la Renaissance : eLtude et bibliographie / Max Engammare. series GeneLve : Droz, 1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485 .E54 1993

This is an extensive survey and review of materials related to the Song of Songs and its interpretation in Catholic and Protestant Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation and the period leading up to them. It covers the explosion of commentaries and other works from the fourteenth century through the sixteenth century.


Falk, Marcia. Love lyrics from the Bible : a translation and literary study of the Song of Songs / Marcia Falk. 0907459064 series Sheffield [Yorkshire] : Almond Press, 1982.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1487 .F34 1982

Marcia Falk is a poet (in both Hebrew and English), liturgist, and scholar. She provides a translation of Song of Songs into poetic, modern English, with useful literary studies.

 

Pope, Marvin H.  Song of Songs / a new translation with introduction and commentary by Marvin H. Pope. 1st ed. 0385005695 : series Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977.
Call#: Van Pelt Judaica/Ancient Near East Seminar (Rm. 401) BS1483 .P6 1977

Marvin Pope's magisterial commentary on Song of Songs contains a wealth of information on the original text and its interpretations.

Matter, E. Ann. Voice of my beloved : the Song of Songs in western medieval Christianity / E. Ann Matter. 0812282310 series Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.2 .M38 1990

Ann Matter provides a survey of important approaches to interpreting the Song of Songs within western Christianity in late antiquity and the middle ages.

An annotated bibliography for the Sermon on the Mount (= SM) and the history of its interpretation
Patte, Daniel. . Discipleship according to the Sermon on the mount : four legitimate readings, four plausible views of discipleship, and their relative values / Daniel Patte. [156338177X (pbk.) ] Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, c1996.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.2 .P27 1996

Daniel Patte presents four ways of looking at the SM as delineations of discipleship.

A. Ethical (Deontological. also "Historical").  Strecker and Kingsbury uses redaction-critical and literary-critical methods.
The SM is a Law that determines the boundaries of the Christian community. The SM expresses the reality of Mattthew's time in terms of Jesus' unique time with his original disciples. The SM is an absolute expression of God's eternal will by God's unique Son. It is a law (but not a legalistic one) that disciples need to perform, and it is urgent that they do so because the coming of the Kingdom of God is imminent.
Discipleship is the implementation of God's eternal will as revealed by Jesus. It is presented as a set of universal principles that constitute a code of behavior for the church and its members.

B. Narrative.  Edwards uses plot analysis.
The SM is a call to discipleship.  The SM contributes to transforming its hearers into disciples who are fully ready to carry out their mission.  (Matthew is the story of how the lowly servant of all becomes exalted Lord of all, and how fishers become novice disciples and finally full-fledged disciples, equipped to carry out their mission to fish for people).
Discipleship is seeking to continue Jesus' ministry — by performing good works that other can discern as expressions of God's goodness and that can encourage them toward discipleship.

C. Figurative.  Luz, Davies, and Allison focus on taking the Lord's Prayer as central to the SM.
The SM specifies what discipleship involves in view of the fact that the disciples live between two horizons:  the present (in which God's love as a caring Father is manifest) and the future (the ethical demands of the coming Kingdom of God).
Discipleship is a faith venture in intuitive ethical practice.  Jesus is the primary model whom disciples are to imitate.

D. Thematic.  Patte focuses on taking the "sound eye" as the controlling theme in the SM.
The SM focuses on moral discernment, which distinguishes faithful discipleship. Being a faithful disciple means being totally focused on the manifestations of God's goodness, the good works of people, and the hidden good in righteous people.  The person who has such vision knows what direction to go in — imitating God and anyone else who performs good works.
Discipleship is a faith venture in which disciples seek by faith to discover what they must do.

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Matthew 1-13 / edited by Manlio Simonetti. 0830814868 (cloth : alk. paper) series Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS2575.3 .M29 2001

This is the first volume in the series, Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture. It is a modern "catena," a collection of noteworthy comments on verses in Matthew by church writers from the first century through the eighth. Each section is introduced by a summary, and then you see English translations of the comments from a fair variety of church writers.

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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. . Discipleship / Dietrich Bonhoeffer ; translated from the German edition edited by Martin Kuske and Ilse Tödt ; English edition edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey ; translated by Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss. [0800683048 (alk. paper) ] Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BR45 .B6513 1996 v.4

A significant part of this book is Bonhoeffer's popular interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount.

This is a recent translation of Bonhoeffer's Nachfolge. This edition contains relatively extensive comments in footnotes. An earlier, popular translation is entitled The Cost of Discipleship.

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Davies, William David, 1911- . Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew / by W.D. Davies and Dale C. Allison. 0567094812 series Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark, 1988-
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS2575.3 .D38 1988

A critical commentary on Matthew from the International Critical Commentary (ICC) series. The Sermon on the Mount is included in Volume 1.  Davies previously wrote the seminal study on the Sermon and the Mount and its setting.


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Luz, Ulrich. . Matthew : a commentary / Ulrich Luz ; translated by Wilhelm C. Linss. 0806624027 (v. 1) series Minneapolis : Augsburg, c1989-
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS2575.3 .L8913 1989

An impressive commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, translated into English for the Hermeneia series.  This commentary discusses the meaning of each section with reference to Jesus, with reference to Matthew's community, and with reference to its influence.  Volume 1 contains the Sermon on the Mount.

Carter, Warren, 1955- . Matthew and the margins : a sociopolitical and religious reading / Warren Carter. 1570753245 (pbk.) series Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS2575.3 .C38 2000

Carter's commentary on the Gospel of Matthew has a sociopolitical emphasis.


Sermon on the Mount through the centuries / edited by Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, Stephen R. Spencer. 9781587432057 (pbk.) series Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, c2007.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.3 .R43 2007

This is a survey of some major Christian interpreters of the Sermon on the Mount, including John Chrysostom, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Dante and Chaucer, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, C. H. Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Howard Yoder, John Paul II, Leonardo Boff, and John R. W. Stott.

Jeremias, Joachim, 1900- . Sermon on the Mount. Translated by Norman Perrin. series Philadelphia, Fortress Press [1963]
Call#: Van Pelt Library 225.141 J473.2.EP

 

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Sermon on the mount and its Jewish setting / edited by Hans-Jürgen Becker and Serge Ruzer. 2850211655 series Paris : Gabalda, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.2 .S47 2005

 

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Lapide, Pinchas, 1922- . Sermon on the mount, Utopia or program for action? / Pinchas Lapide ; translated from the German by Arlene Swidler. [0883442485 (pbk.) ] Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, c1986.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.2 .L3313 1986
A contemporary Jewish interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount.


“A man comes forth in Israel to make today’s prophetic vision tomorrow’s agenda; one for whom the teachings of Mount Sinai do not suffice because he wished to penetrate beyond to the original divine intent; one who, despite war and tyranny, dares to pursue the biblical love of neighbor to its ultimate consequence in order to brand all our souls with an ideal of human possibility that no longer allows us to be content with the threadbare, run-of-the-mill persons we are but need not be” (7-8).

“What are all the imperatives of the Instruction on the Mount if not a concerted call to absolute fulfillment of the Torah in its original meaning, the concrete teaching of the all-encompassing love of God and love of neighbor?” (37).

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Stoutenburg, Dennis. . With one voice : the Sermon on the mount and rabbinic literature = B'qol echad / Dennis Stoutenburg. 1573090514 (cloth : alk. paper) series San Francisco : International Scholars Publications, 1996.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BT380.2 .S865 1996

 

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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. . Christian discourses and The lilies of the field and the birds of the air and Three discourses at the communion on Fridays. Translated with an introd. by Walter Lowrie. series New York, Oxford University Press [1952, 1940]
Call#: Van Pelt Library 119 K546.24.EL


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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. . Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount drawn from the writings of St. Augustine : with an introductory essay on Augustine as an interpreter of Scripture / by Richard Chenevix Trench. 4th ed., rev. series London : Macmillan, 1881.
Call#: Van Pelt Library 225.141 T727


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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. . Lord's Sermon on the mount, tr. by John J. Jepson, with an introd. and notes by the editors. series Westminster, Md., Newman Press, 1948.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BR60 .A35 no.5


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Friedlander, Gerald, 1871-1923. . Jewish sources of the Sermon on the Mount. series New York, Ktav Pub. House, 1969.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380 .F67 1969


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Strecker, Georg, 1929-1994. . Sermon on the mount : an exegetical commentary / Georg Strecker ; translated by O.C. Dean Jr. 0687375606 (alk. paper) series Nashville : Abingdon Press, c1988.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.2 .S8713 1988


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Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. . Sermons on the Beatitudes : five sermons from the Gospel Harmony, delivered in Geneva in 1560 / John Calvin ; translated into English by Robert White. 0851519342 series Carlisle, PA : Banner of Truth Trust, c2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT382 .C34 2006


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Meistad, Tore, 1942- . Martin Luther and John Wesley on the Sermon on the mount / Tore Meistad. 0810835673 (cloth : alk. paper) series Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BX8495.W5 M39 1999


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Hogan, Martin. . Sermon on the mount in St. Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron / Martin Hogan. 3906761622 series Bern ; New York : P. Lang, c1999.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS2550.T2 H75 1999


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MacBean, James Roy. . Film and revolution / James Roy MacBean. 0253321891. series Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1975.
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE PN1995.9.P6 M33
Call#: Storage: From RECORD page, use Place Request tab STORAGE PN1995.9.P6 M33
Call#: Van Pelt Library--4 East--Temporary Location Annenberg PN1995.9.P6 M33
Call#: Van Pelt Library--4 East--Temporary Location Annenberg PN1995.9.P6 M33


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Bauman, Clarence. . Sermon on the mount : the modern quest for its meaning / by Clarence Bauman. [0865541132 (alk. paper) : ] Macon, GA : Mercer University Press, c1985.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BT380.2 .B37 1985


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Pelikan, Jaroslav, 1923-2006. . Divine rhetoric : the Sermon on the mount as message and as model in Augustine, Chrysostom, and Luther / Jaroslav Pelikan. [0881412147 (alk. paper) ] Crestwood, NY : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2001, c2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BR115.R55 P45 2001

Pelikan explores issues of rhetoric in three major interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount: the sermons of Chrysostom, Augustine, and Luther.  While the book focuses on rhetoric, he also provides good introduction to the three interpreters.
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Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra on the Song of Songs / introduced, translated, and edited by James George Kiecker. [0874627036 (pbk.)] Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, 1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.3 .N5313 1998

The Postillae of Nicholas of Lyra was the first biblical commentary to be printed. His Postillae on the Song of Songs was very widely read; it was reprinted in 34 editions by 1550. The word "postilla" apparently derives from the Latin post illa [verba], "after these words" used in medieval sermons; it refers to comments on biblical texts. Nicholas's Literal Postilla explained the Biblical text word by word.

Nicholas was a Franciscan. He read Hebrew and used Rabbinic sources such as Rashi. He knew that דדיך ddyk in Song 1:2 should be translated "amores" instead of "ubera". In his view, the first six chapters of the Song recount the history of Israel from the Exodus to the return from Babylonian Exile, and the last two chapters recount the history of the Church to Constantine.