Song of Songs
Song of Solomon - Song of Songs, or Canticles, book of the Bible, 22d in the order of the Authorized Version. Although traditionally ascribed to King Solomon, many scholars date it as late as the 3d cent. b.c. It is in form a collection of love poems. Its preservation in the Jewish and Christian canon is due not to its universally admitted poetic beauty, but to the acceptance of it as an allegory Read More...
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Song of Songs
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The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity
by E. Ann Matter. 236 pgs.
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The Song of Songs: Being a Collection of Love Lyrics of Ancient Palestine
by Morris Jastrow. 246 pgs.
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The Songs, Hymns, and Prayers of the Old Testament (Chap. 4 "The Origin and Interpretation of the Song Of Songs")
by Charles Foster Kent. 312 pgs.
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Jewish Explorations of Sexuality (includes "The Song of Songs: Eros and the Mystical Quest")
by Jonathan Magonet. 255 pgs.
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Genesis and Gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and Their Cultural Impact (Chap. 6 "Paradise Continued")
by William E. Phipps. 130 pgs.
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Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions (Chap. 7 "'Merely a Love Poem'? Common Sense, Suspicion, and the Song of Songs")
by Frances Devlin-Glass, Lyn McCredden. 268 pgs.
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With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Chap. 4 "Karaite Commentaries on the Song of Songs from Tenth-Century Jerusalem")
by Joseph W. Goering, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish. 488 pgs.
