Bible – OT – Song of Songs

May 2012

May 18, 2012
Griffiths argues ( Song of Songs (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible) , pp. 30-31)...
May 18, 2012
Paul Griffiths brilliantly analyzes the lovers’ obsession with one another’s bodies in the Song (...
May 18, 2012
Here’s an intriguing etymology. The Hebrew word na’ah is used only three times in the...
May 03, 2012
The Lover calls his bride his “darling” (Song of Songs 1:9, NASB). The Hebrew is...
May 03, 2012
Solomon’s first wife was an Egyptian princess (1 Kings 3:1). She was Solomon’s mare among...
May 03, 2012
In his first speech of praise to his Beloved, the Lover of the Song compares...
May 03, 2012
In his superb commentary on the Vulgate of the Song of Songs ( Song of...

March 2012

March 16, 2012
The soul ( nephesh ) is the seat of desire in Scripture. Souls hunger for...
March 15, 2012
Right from the beginning, Dodi regards the Bride as the most beautiful ( yapheh )...
March 15, 2012
The Bride asks Dodi where he pastures the flock and where he finds shade at...
March 15, 2012
Come to Lebanon, my bride, the Lover says in the Song. Take the journey from...
March 14, 2012
The Song of Songs includes two full wasfs , poems that enumerate and commend the...
March 12, 2012
If you click the “Downloads” link above, you’ll find a fine structural analysis of the...

February 2012

February 28, 2012
The final chapter of the Song of Songs is filled with imagery of birth, and...
February 28, 2012
“Let us spend the night in the villages,” says the Bride to her lover in...
February 28, 2012
Most English translations render Song 7:5c as “The king is captivated by your tresses.” “Captivated”...
February 28, 2012
The bride’s eyes are like “pools in Heshbon, beside the gate of Bath-rabbim” (Song 7:4)....
February 18, 2012
The Bride of the Song is blackened by the sun, and she is in the...
February 14, 2012
“Precious” ( meged ) is used in only two books of the Old Testament. in...
February 14, 2012
“Awake, O north! Come, O south! Breathe my garden, let my spices flow.” “Flow” (...
February 14, 2012
“Awake, O north! Come, O south! Breathe my garden!” The Bride needs to awaken the...
February 14, 2012
The letter to the Laodiceans clearly ends with an allusion to teh Song of Songs....
February 14, 2012
The sequence of Song of Songs 4:16 is significant. The verse begins with an invocation...
February 07, 2012
The second half of Song of Songs 3 is arranged in a chiasm, centering on...
February 07, 2012
Who is this coming from the wilderness? It’s traveling couch, born by sixty burly men....
February 06, 2012
Song of Songs 3:1-4 is a highly repetitive passage, but it does have a logic...
February 04, 2012
Giffiths speaks of the “complex admixture of regret and lament for unworthiness . . ....
February 04, 2012
Some profound meditations about sex, time, life, the universe and everything from Paul Griffiths’s Song...

January 2012

January 30, 2012
Explaining the adjuration of Song of Songs 2:7 (repeated in slightly different form in 8:4),...
January 30, 2012
The Bride of the Song declares that she is a “lily” (shushan), and her lover...
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