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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...

Origen on the Song, together covering 1:1–2:14*; these have survived in a Latin translation made by Jerome, who added a preface in praise of the superb quality and thoroughness of Origen’s treatment in. the commentary.68 In the homilies themselves, Origen develops the declarations of love made by the Song’s male and female protagonists (or “the Bridegroom” and “the Bride” as he refers to them) into a portrait of the nuptial relationship between Christ and the church; here the female figure is
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