No composition of comparable size in world literature has provoked and inspired such a volume and variety of comment and interpretation as the biblical Song of Songs. In adding to the already bloated body of literature, no claim is made that the present study supplies the master key to the inner sanctum of the mysteries of Solomon’s superb Song which the savant Saadia long ago likened to a lock for which the key had been lost. The quest for the supposedly lost key has been futile, for the door