May 11, 2023

67. The Song of Songs.

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49 minutes

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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May 11, 2023

67. The Song of Songs.

Listen Later

49 minutes

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.

...more