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Vyučující
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Visi Tamás, doc. Ph.D., M.A.
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Obsah předmětu
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Topics to be discussed during the semester: 1. A short history of the concept of love. Emotional economy in per-industrial societies. The Ancient Near East: marriage without love, love without marriage, and marriage with love. Mythologies of love and erotic desire. Obsession: love magic. Brain-disease: love as a medical problem. Aristocratic culture: courtly love. Urban nostalgia for the peasants' life: bucolic love poetry. Lovers in Classical Biblical Hebrew narrative. 2. Literary models of ancient Hebrew love poetry. Ancient Mesopotamian love poetry. Ancient Egyptian love poetry. Theocritus' bucolic poems as a possible literary model of the Song of Songs. The place of love poetry in the ancient Hebrew literary polysystem. Relationship to Classical Arab poetry (qasida and wasf). 3. Song of Songs: Date and authorship. Late Biblical Hebrew poetry: grammatical features and prosody. Greek loanwords. "Ahava" ("Love") a Hebrew functional equivalent of Aphrodite or Eros? The Pharaoh's horses: links to the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria. Sharon and Ein-Gedi: the geographical horizon of the Song of Songs. The enigmatic connection to ancient Egyptian love poems What do we know about the Poet (P.)? 4. Problems of exegesis. Sitz im Leben: wedding? aristocratic entertainment? folk poetry? The orchard: trees, flowers, zoo. Can we identify a plot behind the poems? Is it a drama or not? The shepherd and the king. Is Shulamit the female protagonist of the story? The "plot" of the Egyptian love song in Papyrus Chester Beatty I A ("The Stroller") (20th dynasty) and the "plot" of the Song of Songs. "Solomon" and "Mehi". 5. The anthropology of the poem. Heart as an organ of love. The eye and the gaze. The physiological effects of love. Love-sickness. Black skin, white teeth: the aesthetics of the human body in the poem. Desire and shame. Love and society: family, the friends, and the authorities (guards, soldiers, king). 6. Reception history. How did Song of Songs get into the biblical canon? The "synod of Yabneh": an academic legend. Josephus Flavius on the biblical canon. Rabbinic debates about the ritual status of the Song of Songs scrolls. Banning the secular interpretation. The Song of Songs in Christianity: Origenes' interpretation. Male and female symbols. The return of the repressed in Christianity: the worship of the holy virgin. The return of the repressed in Judaism: the worship of the shekhina.
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Studijní aktivity a metody výuky
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Dialogická (diskuze, rozhovor, brainstorming), Metody práce s textem (učebnicí, knihou)
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Výstupy z učení
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Students will learn the basic features of Ancient Hebrew poetry, and some of the methodologies of analyzing an ancient text and contextualizing it in the broader history of literature.
Orientation in the exegetical problems and in the history of reception of the Song of Songs.
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Předpoklady
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Ability to read secondary literature in English
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Hodnoticí metody a kritéria
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Analýza výkonů studenta, Systematické pozorování studenta
Attendance of classes (20%) Regular preparation for seminars (reading the assigned texts and making serious attempts at understanding them) (40%) Oral exam on the basis of the texts read during the semester or equivalent tasks. (40%) Tolerated absences: 2.
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Doporučená literatura
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Anna Swiderková. Tvář helénistického světa. Praha. 1983.
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John L. Foster. (1995). Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry. Atlanta.
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Michael W. Fox. (1985). The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. Madison.
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