Bible – OT – Song of Songs

March 2018

March 16, 2018
The Song of Song depicts a Bridegroom who is passionate toward his bride. Does that...
March 15, 2018
The Song of Songs was among the most popular books for commentary in the Latin...
March 13, 2018
In his 2005 Christmas encyclical, Deus caritas est, Benedict XVI explains why love has to...
March 06, 2018
A few passages from premodern allegorical readings of the Song of Songs. The first set...

December 2017

December 19, 2017
Four things puzzle Agur the son of Jakeh, elusive author of Proverbs 30: eagles in...

October 2015

October 29, 2015
Aren Wilson-Wright examines the elements of “Northwest Semitic combat myth” in the theme verses of...
October 27, 2015
“Put me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm,” says...
October 26, 2015
“Love is as strong as death, and jealousy as Sheol.” A fine sentiment, but what...

September 2015

September 08, 2015
Josh Timmermann suggests that Terrence Malick's To the Wonder takes its cues not from love stories but from...

August 2014

August 18, 2014
In the Song of Songs, the Lover calls His beloved out to romp, encouraging her...

July 2014

July 16, 2014
Yael Klangwisan’s Earthing the Cosmic Queen offers a couple of distinct theoretical frameworks for interpreting the...

April 2013

April 18, 2013
The presence of a lover can wound. So, of course, can separation. Commenting on the...
April 18, 2013
The beloved of the Song can’t respond to Dodi’s call because she doesn’t want to...
April 18, 2013
Song of Songs 5 is arranged in a modified chiasm: A. Bride Asleep, Dodi (“my...

March 2013

March 14, 2013
The bride of the Song is a closed garden (4:12), her spices and fruits inaccessible,...
March 14, 2013
Commenting on the Song of Songs 4:10, Paul Griffiths ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological...

February 2013

February 16, 2013
It’s not difficult to see how allegorical interpretation of the Song of Songs inspires the...
February 14, 2013
The Torah never mentions breasts as an object of erotic fascination; they are solely nourishment...
February 14, 2013
Solomon describes the beauty of his beloved in a neat and symmetrical poem in Song...

January 2013

January 31, 2013
Delight, writes Paul Griffith in Song of Songs (Brazo’s Theological Commentary on the Bible) (92-3)...

November 2012

November 15, 2012
Beds in Scripture are sick beds (Hezekiah) or death beds (Jacob, David). Beds are also...

August 2012

August 30, 2012
Griffiths again ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) , 62) on...
August 30, 2012
Griffiths again ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) , 60): “The...
August 30, 2012
Working from the Vulgate text, Paul Griffiths ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on...
August 18, 2012
The Bride moves from speaking of Dodi as an “apple tree” with delightful fruit and...
August 16, 2012
The word “shade” is first used in Genesis 19:8, where Lot says that the angels...
August 16, 2012
The opening statement of Song of Songs 2 is spoken by the Bride, but the...

June 2012

June 16, 2012
“My belived” ( dodi ) is as a cluster ( eshchol ) of camphire or...
June 14, 2012
The scene in the first stich of Song of Songs 1:12 pictures the king “at...

May 2012

May 19, 2012
Griffiths ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) ) suggests that we...
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