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Song of Songs is a wondrous collection of love lyrics nestled in the heart of the Hebrew Bible—songs of passion and praise between a young maiden and her beloved. It is religious lyric par excellence. But what is its true meaning? Is it an expression of human love and passion, pure and simple? A celebration of the covenant between God and Israel? Or something else? The latest volume in the...

For the reader’s convenience, the following treatment summarizes the discussion of these topics in the Introduction and in the excursus. It also explains the main features of the particular commentary that follows. Peshat marks the plain sense of a verse or passage. As with any text, the Song’s dialogical or dramatic units compose its discourse, which conditions how peshat readers view a given passage. Then they construe the text through
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