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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...

bliss—[this refers] to the building of the Temple. May it be (re)built speedily in our time! Amen.” Once again we find the Song’s original love lyrics set alongside their rabbinic reinterpretation—an interpretation of Sinai as a sacred marriage between Israel (the daughters of Zion) and God (Solomon, an ancient epithet of Divinity),20 and of the Temple as a connubial canopy (with a messianic prayer added for good measure). We thus have one book but two Songs: one stirs interpersonal love, while the
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