Lecture by Claire Placial

Serious Topics

Claire Placial, a lecturer at the University of Lorraine, presents a lecture entitled “2,500 Years of Love Lyric Poetry: the Song of Songs and Its Reception”. Since entering the canon of the Hebrew Bible, the Song of Songs has fascinated readers. A model of love poetry, it has inspired poets of all religions and led mystics to question the sacred nature of a text that seems to speak more of desire than of God. The lecture provides an overview of this distinctive reception.