Sweet!!! I’m looking forward to this.

Oh I love this… God has three good blogs all doing Song of Solomon at the same time… right when I started studying it… LOLOL
More Lord! LOLOL
I’m watching……..

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[...] … ist Gegenstand einer neuen täglichen Serie von Scot McKnight. Der erste Post findet sich hier. Ich freu mich drauf! [...]

Sounds like a winner, Scot!

As you progress I would love to know what you think of Cheryl’s commentary, I heard a number of presentations from it, and it sounded really good!

I have heard it said that the older rabbis would not let the younger single rabbis read it because it was too explicit. Is that a sort of urban legend or is there evidence for that?

I’ve not seen that, Matthew, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

Scot
Looking forward to the series.

I was taught growing up that this was written between Solomon and one of his wives, but point 3 suggests differently. Are you going to dwell more on this?

Scot:
Teaching through this recently, I appreciated many insights in Richard Hess’ “Song of Songs” contribution to the new Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series . . . but really loved the presentation of David Allan Hubbard in the Communicator’s Commentary series (aka The Preacher’s Commentary, aka Mastering the Old Testament).

While not denying some valuable “insights” from the allegorical approach to this “Song,” to see it liberated into its intended purpose–a celebration of married sexual love–is long overdue. I’ll follow these entries with interest, too, Scot. Thanks for tackling the book.

Scot,
I’ve been reading your blog for a couple of months now, but this is the first time I have commented. I’m looking forward to this series. I’m with Krista on point three; I’ve always understood Song of Songs to be a love poem between Solomon and one of his wives. I once ran across an SDA publication that said basically what you said in point three. Because it was coming from an SDA pub., I distrusted it, though it did cause me to re-read Song of Solomon. I still couldn’t figure it out. I’d appreciate your thoughts on this.
P.S. I grew up understanding this to be love poetry, and I pretty much thought that the allegorical view hadn’t been seriously believed by many people for quite a long time. Is that really still a popular view?

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[...] One of my favorite bloggers, Scot McKnight of Jesus Creed, has been doing a series lately examining one of my favorite poems — Song of Songs. His first post is here; the rest of the entries continue from April 2 on. [...]