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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
"Song" (Hebrew: שיר also meaning "poem") in noun form appears only here in this book, out of 166 times in the Hebrew Bible (mostly in the Book of Psalms). [16] "Which is Solomon's" ("that concerns Solomon"; Hebrew: אשר לשלמה , ’ă-sher li š-lō-mōh [15] ): can have the interpretation that (1) Solomon is the author; (2) the book ...
Shulamite. A Shulamite (or Shulammite; Biblical Hebrew: שׁוּלַמִּית, romanized: Šūlammîṯ, Koinē Greek: Σουλαμῖτις, romanized: Soulamîtis, Medieval Latin: Sūlamītis) is a person from Shulem. The Hebrew Bible identifies [citation needed] as a Shulamite the swarthy, female historical figure in the Song of Songs (in ...
Psalm 137 is a hymn expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people during their Babylonian exile. In its whole form of nine verses, the psalm reflects the yearning for Jerusalem as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery.
Song of Songs 6 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 6) is the sixth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
Song 3:1–5 = A Troubled Night; Song 3:6–11 = The Coming of Solomon; Female: Search and seizure (3:1-5) The first part of this chapter is "a tightly constructed song" of the female protagonist, describing how she looks for her lover at night (or in a dream) in the city streets, until she finds him and brings him into her mother's house.
Tar Baby. Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her third to be published. It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. This novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey 's popular book club, and was cited by ...
In his commentary on the Song of Solomon, he calls peshaִt (literal explanation) and sod (mystical interpretation) the two opposite extremes, while he declares his own method of introducing allegorical exposition to be the safe mean between these extremes. Alshich wrote the following commentaries, most of which have appeared in several editions: