Others see this book primarily as a drama dealing with three characters Solomon, a simple country shepherd, and the young maiden.
One writer in the third century wrote a ten-volume commentary on Song of Solomon, telling how the book describes God’s love for Christians.” (Estes) Trapp expresses this perspective: “The chief speakers are not Solomon and the Shulamite… but Christ and his Church.” Early Christian writers took the same approach, but they replaced Israel with the Church. “The early Jewish rabbis taught that the book pictures God’s love for Israel. Others embrace this book with great devotion but see it primarily as an allegory describing the love relationship between God and His people, not between a husband and wife. Origen (c.185-c.254), an important teacher in the early church, said of the Song of Solomon: “I advise and counsel everyone who is not yet rid of vexations of the flesh and blood, and has not ceased to feel the passions of this bodily nature, to refrain from reading the book and the things that will be said about it.” Origen apparently felt he was prepared to study Song of Solomon because he castrated himself when he was a young man. The song of songs: Many different interpretive approaches have been used in understanding this great song. Charles Spurgeon preached 59 sermons on this book (in Victorian England) and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) preached 86 sermons on chapters one and two alone.ī. All the Scriptures, indeed, are holy… but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies.” (Rabbi Aqiba, an early Jewish commentator on Song of Solomon, cited in Kinlaw) “The entire history of the world from its beginning to this very day does not outshine that day on which this book was given to Israel. No matter what one calls this book it has rightly been highly praised, even by those who have interpreted it in somewhat allegorical and speculative ways. Some call it “Song of Solomon,” some “Song of Songs,” some even use the Latin word for songs, calling it “Canticles.” It seems that Bible translators cannot even agree on a name for the book. The book has no obvious religious content.” (Kinlaw) “If a manuscript of this little book were found alone, detached from the biblical context and tradition, it undoubtedly would be viewed as secular. If the Song of Solomon was not in our Bible and we were to discover it as an ancient document from the time of Solomon, it is unlikely that we would include it in the collection of Old Testament books. The song of songs: This great song, or collection of poetic songs, is unique in the Bible. Introduction to the Maiden, the Beloved, and the daughters of Jerusalem.
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