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Song of Songs 2:8-13

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bulletReading the Text:
bullet NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV, Common Worship Psalter, ASB Psalter, and BCP Psalter) at Oremus Bible Browser.
bullet The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
bulletThe Blue Letter Bible. KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries.
bulletThe World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
bulletHistorical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
bullet"Devotion and Praise," Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit.
bulletFrom the Geneva Notes.
bullet"(2:8) This is spoken of Christ who took on our nature to come to help his Church."
bulletMystic Union Between Christ and the Saints, Thomas Watson, 1680.
bullet"It is hard to show how the soul is united to the body, and how Christ is united to the soul. But though this union is spiritual, it is real."
bulletFrom Matthew Henry's Commentary.
bullet"Christ invites the new convert to arise from sloth and despondency, and to leave sin and worldly vanities, for union and communion with him."
bulletFrom Wesley's Notes.
bullet"The turtle - This seems particularly to be mentioned because it not only gives notice of the spring, but aptly represents the Spirit of God, which even the Chaldee paraphrast understands by this turtle, which appeared in the shape of a dove, and which worketh a dove - like meekness, and chastity, and faithfulness, in believers."
bulletFrom the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
bullet"(2:8) Historically, the coming of the kingdom of heaven (the gospel dispensation), announced by John Baptist, is meant; it primarily is the garden or vineyard; the bride is called so in a secondary sense."
bulletContemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
bullet Song of Solomon 2:8-13, Pentecost 13, Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in Australia.
bulletArticles & Background:
bullet "How Mystics Hear the Song," W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., (other resources at) "Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
bullet"Mystics illustrate the power of the Song of Songs to shape our understanding of life with God. Can our languishing love be transformed into radical eros—a deep yearning that knows only the language of intimate communion, the song of the Bridegroom and his Bride?"
bullet "Radha in the Erotic Play of the Universe," David C. Scott, The Christian Century, 1995.
bullet"Why must Christian love be totally gratuitous, disinterested, and passionless? Indeed, why, given its importance to and power in human life has passionate relationship not been central in the Christian tradition?"
bullet "Reveling in Romance," Martin Copenhaver, The Christian Century, 1994.
bullet"Even after such thorough allegorization one cannot escape the impression that the author of the Song of Songs actually was doing what he appeared to be doing, and what more straitlaced interpreters seem loath to admit he was doing--namely, celebrating human love with poetry, reveling in romance and sexuality."
bulletArticles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
bulletBergant, Dianne, "'My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His,' (Song 2:16): The Song of Songs and Honor and Shame," Semeia, 1994.
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bulletBrenner, Athalya, "The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the Song of Songs," Semeia, 1999.
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bulletCopenhaver, Martin, "Reveling in Romance," The Christian Century, 1994.
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bulletGrossberg, Daniel, "Nature, Humanity and Love in Song of Songs," Interpretation, 2005.
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bulletHolmyard, Harold R., III, "Solomon's Perfect One," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1998.
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bulletPerry, T.A., "The Coordination of KY / 'L KN in Cant. I.1-3 and Related Texts," Vetus Testamentum, 2005.
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bullet Song of Songs, issue focus of Interpretation, 2005.
bulletSuderman, W. Derek, "Modest or Magnificent? Lotus versus Lily in Canticles," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2005.
 
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bulletReviews:
bulletSermons:
bullet "Eros and Ethics," Susan R. Andrews, 2004. Covenant Network of Presbyterians.
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bulletGraphics & Bulletin Materials:
bullet Clip Art: Song of Solomon: Rose of Sharon, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission Collection, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
bulletHymns and Music:
bullet Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Song of Songs 2:8, 10. The Cyber Hymnal.
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bulletStudy Links and Resources for the Book of the Song of Solomon