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67. The Song of Songs.
I come to my garden, my sister, my bride;
I gather my myrrh with my spice,
I eat my honeycomb with my honey,
I drink my wine with my milk.
Eat, friends, drink,
And be drunk with love.
The Song of Songs is a work of lyric poetry which is notably and
undeniably erotic in focus. And yet it has also been a key religious text
within both Judaism and Christianity, and has been read and commented upon for
thousands of years within those contexts. Chris and Suzanne read this poetry
both within and without these traditions of interpretations — and also
luxuriate in its intensity (and spiciness).
Show Notes.
The Song of Songs is part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, and is
available in many
translations.
Chris was primarily looking at the Jewish Publication
Society translation;
Suzanne at the Revised Standard
Version.
Our episodes on Walt Whitman, the
allegorical Conference of the Birds,
and Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue.
Bernard of Clairvaux: Commentary on the Song of
Songs.
Alain of Lille’s commentary, Elucidatio in Cantica Canticorum, doesn’t seem to
be easily available in English, but here’s the
Latin.
Rupert of Deutz’s Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum
also doesn’t seem to have been translated into English.
Next: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy.
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I come to my garden, my sister, my bride;
I gather my myrrh with my spice,
I eat my honeycomb with my honey,
I drink my wine with my milk.
Eat, friends, drink,
And be drunk with love.
The Song of Songs is a work of lyric poetry which is notably and
undeniably erotic in focus. And yet it has also been a key religious text
within both Judaism and Christianity, and has been read and commented upon for
thousands of years within those contexts. Chris and Suzanne read this poetry
both within and without these traditions of interpretations — and also
luxuriate in its intensity (and spiciness).
Show Notes.
The Song of Songs is part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, and is
available in many
translations.
Chris was primarily looking at the Jewish Publication
Society translation;
Suzanne at the Revised Standard
Version.
Our episodes on Walt Whitman, the
allegorical Conference of the Birds,
and Times Square Red, Times Square
Blue.
Bernard of Clairvaux: Commentary on the Song of
Songs.
Alain of Lille’s commentary, Elucidatio in Cantica Canticorum, doesn’t seem to
be easily available in English, but here’s the
Latin.
Rupert of Deutz’s Commentaria in Cantica Canticorum
also doesn’t seem to have been translated into English.
Next: Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy.
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