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A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.

In The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Hannah W. Matis examines how the Song of Songs, the collection of Hebrew love poetry, was understood in the Latin

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