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Song of Songs 2:8-13
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| "Devotion
and Praise," Comparative World Scriptures from United
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| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "(2:8) This is spoken of Christ who took on our nature to come to help his
Church." |
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| Mystic Union
Between Christ and the Saints, Thomas Watson, 1680.
| "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." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "Christ invites the new convert to arise from sloth and despondency, and to
leave sin and worldly vanities, for union and communion with him." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "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." |
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| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "(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." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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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. |
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"How Mystics Hear the Song," W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., (other resources
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"Parables," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2006.
| "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?" |
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"Radha in the Erotic Play of the Universe," David C.
Scott, The Christian Century, 1995.
| "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?" |
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"Reveling in Romance," Martin Copenhaver, The Christian Century,
1994.
| "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." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
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ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Bergant, 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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| Brenner, Athalya,
"The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the Song of Songs,"
Semeia, 1999.
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| Copenhaver, Martin, "Reveling in Romance," The
Christian Century, 1994.
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| Grossberg, Daniel, "Nature, Humanity and Love in Song
of Songs," Interpretation, 2005.
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| Holmyard, Harold R., III,
"Solomon's Perfect One," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1998.
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| Perry, T.A.,
"The Coordination of KY / 'L KN in Cant. I.1-3 and Related Texts,"
Vetus Testamentum, 2005.
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Song of Songs,
issue focus of Interpretation, 2005. |
| Suderman, W. Derek,
"Modest or Magnificent? Lotus versus Lily in Canticles," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 2005.
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Song of Solomon: Rose of Sharon, Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission
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