A King is Bound in the Tresses

The Author: Ann Roberts Winsor received her Ph.D. in Biblical studies from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Dr. Winsor has taught Biblical spirituality and New Testament at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley. She is a priest of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California as well as a spiritual director and is presently interim Dean and Rector at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California.

"To have a carefully critical, methodologically creative study that crosses testaments is a valuable contribution to Biblical studies. Winsor's scrutiny of texts in the Song of Songs, which are evoked in the Fourth Gospel, poses new solutions to classic conundrums. It also invites readers to fresh insight about key texts that center on Biblical women - even to new possibilities of reading other texts differently." (Barbara Green, Professor of Biblical Studies, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Author of 'Like a Tree Planted')
"Allusion is elusive and does not yield its riches easily. Ann Winsor's 'A King is Bound in the Tresses' proves that, with delicacy, patience, and tact, scholarship can reveal the depth of allusive echos in a text and even connect their presence with the work's social setting. Future literary or historical scholarship on the Fourth Gospel should pay attention to this work, both for its conclusions and as a model of sensitive reading." (L. Wm. Countryman, Professor of New Testament, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Author of 'The Mystical Way in the Fourth Gospel' and 'Dirt, Greed, and Sex')