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Relationships are a wonderful, mysterious, often elusive, sometimes painful part of the human experience. The most intimate of all human relationships, according to the Bible, is that between a husband and a wife. It is no surprise, therefore, that there is a book of the Bible, the Song of Songs, that focuses on this relationship. What is surprising is how little attention is given to the Song of...

of our evidence until the middle of the nineteenth century. Indeed, as we will comment below, the allegorical interpretation is enjoying something of a renaissance today in certain circles. We will divide our discussion of allegorical strategies of interpretation into two major parts: Jewish and Christian interpretations. The latter almost certainly took its clue from the former, but its different theology leads to a different understanding of the book. However, before beginning our survey of Jewish
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