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Song of Songs: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Song of Songs has been compared to a lock for which the key was lost. Traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, the book has a sensuous imagery that has been the subject of various allegorical interpretations, chiefly as relating to Yahweh’s love for Israel or Christ’s love for the Church. Marvin H. Pope suggests that the poem is what it seems, an unabashed celebration of sexual love, both...

These twin realities, Love and Death, which haunt every sentient soul, are mentioned together toward the end of the Canticle. The asseveration that “Love is strong as Death,” 8:6, must be the climax and immortal message of the Sublime Song. The sepulchral love scene (Plate XII) proposed as the jacket of this volume speaks to this suggestion more eloquently than words. In the Hebrew Bible the Song of Songs is placed among the Writings, kĕṯûḇîm,
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