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The Song of Songs: A Commentary on the Book of Canticles or The Song of Songs is unavailable, but you can change that!

Murphy offers a representative sounding in the major periods of the Song’s exegetical history. Attention is given to the hermeneutical principles operative in the development of Jewish and Christian exposition. This resource also examines the literary character and structure of the Song, aspects of its composition and style, and its meaning and theological significance. The sum of information...

the conjunction of visible and invisible matters, disclosing heavenly mysteries while cloaking them in the language, events, and diverse physical manifestations of earthly reality.87 When viewed from this perspective, allegory is much less a “method” that Origen brings to the text in order to explicate it than a metaphysical presupposition: his exegesis assumes that “spiritual” meaning is an inherent dimension of the biblical text itself. His method is, rather, disciplined attention to issues of
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