Bible – OT – Song of Songs

January 2012

January 30, 2012
I have commented before on the aural parallel between “fragrance” and “spirit” in Hebrew (...
January 30, 2012
The NASB translates Song of Songs 1:16c as “our couch is luxuriant.” that is an...
January 30, 2012
There are few agreements among scholars about the structure of the Song of Songs, but...
January 24, 2012
In the aforementioned article, Rabin suggests that the poet of the Song lived in a...
January 24, 2012
In a 1973 article comparing the Song of Songs to Tamil poetry, Chaim Rabin points...
January 13, 2012
I offer some reflections on what the allegory of the Song of Songs can teach...
January 07, 2012
Many of the goddesses of ancient paganism were domestic types. The goddesses were mother goddesses,...
January 07, 2012
The first phrase of Song of Songs 1:5 is usually taken as a contrast –...

December 2011

December 17, 2011
The word “maiden” is used twice in the Song, first in 1:3, where the Bride...
December 15, 2011
Aroma and memory are linked liturgically and spiritually as well as literally. The sacrifices were...
December 15, 2011
What excites erotic desire? Our pornographic culture highlights the sheerly sensual - the visible form...
December 11, 2011
Song of Songs 8:14: Hurry, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young...

October 2011

October 06, 2011
“Cosmetic” comes from the Greek kosmos , which typically means “world,” and from techne ,...

September 2011

September 30, 2011
We do not see Jesus. How do we know He is present? Smell and hearing...
September 01, 2011
The Hebrew shir (song) is used vastly more often in the Psalmter than anywhere else,...

August 2011

August 26, 2011
Jesus tells the church at Laodicea to go shopping (Revelation 3:18). They’re supposed to buy...
August 20, 2011
In the first wasf of the bride in Song of Songs 4, the bride is...
August 09, 2011
Song of Songs 8:6-7: Put me like a seal over your heart, like a seal...

April 2011

April 12, 2011
Twice in the Song of Songs, the lover delightedly enumerates the beauty of the bride....

March 2011

March 22, 2011
In an evident allusion to the LXX of Song of Songs 1:2, John says that...
March 22, 2011
In an evident allusion to the LXX of Song of Songs 1:2, John says that...
March 22, 2011
John describes Jesus’ appearance following a wasf form, listing off His features from white head...

December 2010

December 05, 2010
In that day, the Branch will be “beautiful” (Isaiah 4:2). Various words are used for...
December 03, 2010
The folks at First Things have posted an article of mine on their web site:...

August 2010

August 28, 2010
Borrowing from the Song of Songs, Isaiah describes Judah the Bride from head to foot....
August 03, 2010
Jim Rogers of Texas A&M writes in response to my post about God and Eros...

July 2010

July 27, 2010
The erotic intensity of the Song is, these days, an argument against allegorizing.  Walsh rightly...
July 27, 2010
What Carey Walsh calls the “jumpiness” of the Song ( Exquisite Desire ) has sometimes...
July 26, 2010
Song of Songs 5:2 (as Albert Cook points out in The Root of the Thing...
July 26, 2010
In response to the overview of the Song of Songs that I proposed a few...
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