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Song of Songs/Lamentations
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Song of Songs/Lamentations. By Duane Garrett and Paul House. Word Biblical Commentary 23B. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004, xiv + 479 pp., $39.99.
As has come to be expected from a major commentary on Song of Songs, Garrett devotes almost half his commentary to introductory matters. Writing from a conservative evangelical position, he argues at length for the book's origin in the Solomonic royal court of the tenth century BC. In addition, his introduction contains a discussion of perspe...
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The Song of Songs: Wisdom for Young Jewish Women
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; "KNOW, MY BROTHER, that you will find great differences in interpretation of the Song of Songs. In truth they differ because the Song of Songs resembles locks to which the keys have been lost."1 So wrote Rabbi Saadia Gaon al-Fayyumi in the tenth century, in words that still ring true. Few texts in
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The possible dream: Ivy Meeropol's grandfather put the American dream of equality to music, Frank Sinatra sang it, and its sweet, awesome lyrics are still stirring.(includes lyrics to song The House I Live In)
O, The Oprah Magazine
; THE OTHER NIGHT I WAS SURPRISED to hear Frank Sinatra singing The House I Live In. I followed the sound to its source and caught the closing credits of Entertainment Tonight rolling over a video of Sinatra's 1986 performance for the celebration of the Statue of Liberty's 100th year. Watching Ol'
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The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality.
Church History
; I. BEAUTIFUL BRIDES The arduous task of queering the Song of Songs,(1) a book that is ostensibly an unequivocal celebration of male-female sexual love, was accomplished over many centuries by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church (as well as by Jewish Sages of blessed memory, though they were
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The House of Song
Poetry
; The House of Song, by David Wagoner. University of Illinois Press. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. David Wagoner's latest volume has many virtues, but the first that comes to mind is its admirable range. Wagoner's subjects span from Laurel and Hardy to Wallace Stevens, from landscaping rocks to the
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An erotic and spiritual vision There's something deliciously disturbing about all the liquids, the milk, wine and honey, in the Song of Solomon, says AS Byatt
The Independent - London
; The Song of Songs is a cry of erotic longing and a description of erotic bliss. It is a lyrical drama whose speakers and episodes run into each other as in a dream or a vision. There is a female voice, which is both virginal and knowing, triumphant and lost. There is a male voice, impatient,
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Nature, Humanity, and Love in Song of Songs
Interpretation
; This essay is a study of the three-fold theme of nature, humanity, and love in Song of Songs and an investigation into the ways nature imagery is used to evoke human love. The work further examines the nature of the highly erotic yet restrained love that is evoked. The biblical book of love poetry
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Song of Songs.(Book review)
Shofar
; Song of Songs, by Richard S. Hess. Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Press, 2005. 285 pp. $29.95. The Baker Commentary series to which this book belongs is directed primarily to clergy and seminary students, with the object of expos(ing) God's
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They're playing our song; Favorite romantic tunes get to heart of the matter on Valentine's Day
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ... excerpts from some of these songs at www.jsonline.com/ links/. Copyright 2007, Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved. (Note: This notice does not apply to those news items already copyrighted and received through wire services or other media.)
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Florida legislator wants to dump 'Swanee River' as state song.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ In the mid-19th century, the song ``Swanee River'' was a smash hit and helped promote Florida as an idyllic place to live. So enduringly popular, in 1935 the Legislature named it the state song. But the song, written in the voice of a one-time plantation slave, is in dialect and
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"Roomy Hearts" in a "More Spacious World": Origen of Alexandria and Ellen Davis on the Song of Songs
Anglican Theological Review
; This paper compares the exegesis of the Song of Songs done by Origen of Alexandria and Ellen Davis of Duke Divinity School. Once it would have been nearly impossible to make a fruitful comparison between a patristic exegete and a modern one. Now, convergences in church history and in biblical
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