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RE: Theology of Steemit Series: Article 1 - Introducing the Series
It's a delight to find someone else who is enthusiastic about the Song of Songs. One book that says so much about God without ever mentioning God. I think maybe I'll go read it again.
I read a great quote yesterday (after I started to re-read Song of Songs and various analyses of it):
The quote essentially says that it’s subtle metaphors accomplish massive tone-shifts “between the gaiety of bliss and the despondency of infidelity.” For the example, “it leaps seamlessly from the ecstasy of [Passover] night to the crisis of faith six days later on the banks of the Reed Sea.”
And it does all of this with only hints as to its larger metaphorical meaning—making the revelation of its deeper meaning after a repetition of reading that much more mind-blowing.
Remove all the metaphorical connotations, and even just on the surface, as a pure love poem, it still ranks up there as one of the greats.
With the multiple layers of metaphor and deeper meaning...it’s realky a no brained why it’s called the Song of Songs.