One of the customs of the week of Passover is the reading in the synagogue — done at different times in different traditions — of the biblical poem of “The Song of Songs.” “The Song of Songs,” or “The ...

(The Conversation) — The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people. (The Conversation) ...

The Song of Songs is not a book in the Bible that I recall hearing much about in Sunday school class. I can understand why since it is a love poem with all sorts of erotic allusions. “Hurry my love.

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. The night before I married his eldest son, my father-in-law read aloud from the Song of Solomon before a crowd of our closest friends and family, ...

Working effectively for Christ requires intimacy with him. When I first read Song of Solomon and began entering the world of intimacy with Jesus, I was shocked by the idea that he delights in me. The ...

Scholar, poet, and translator Barnstone (The Poetics of Translation) draws from biblical, apocryphal, and gnostic texts for this absorbing collection of religious poems, which he categorizes as either ...

But such notoriety has never stopped them before and the Royal Shakespeare Company is risking fresh controversy by staging a “sensual and erotic” version of the Bible’s Song of Solomon from the Old ...