one thousand and five songs said to have been composed by Solomon (1 Ki 5:12 [ET 4:32]), God has purposefully seen fit to include the one whose superlative name means “the best of songs.” Christ himself gave his disciples a lesson in hermeneutics as “he explained [διερμήνευσεν] to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself” (Lk 24:27). What texts did he use? What, if anything, did he say about the Song? We are not told. But the very lack of references to specific texts implies that