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The Song of Songs: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This Old Testament book, ‘the best of songs’, has fascinated and perplexed interpreters for centuries. We hear the passionate melody of romantic love, and are confronted by erotic imagery—but whose love is described? Is it a couple’s love for each other, God’s love for his people, or a poem that speaks to love in all its dimensions? Iain Duguid’s commentary explains how the Song is designed to...

heart’ (Sayers 1958: 257). He didn’t memorize the Song of Songs because he thought it spoke about Christ, but rather because he thought it spoke about sex—and as an adolescent in a British upper-class culture that never spoke of such things, of course he found it fascinating! This interpretation too has a long history. Rabbi Aqiba pronounced a curse on those who sang portions of the Song at banquets, declaring, ‘He who trills his voice in the chanting of the Song of Songs and treats it as a secular song
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