In the Garden of Delight: Reading the Song of Songs for a Broken World

2020-02-23

In the Garden of Delight: Reading the Song of Songs for a Broken World by Joshua Chestnut Feb 1, 2020 What was once the most popular and most commented-on book in all of the scriptures, the Song of Songs (or sometimes called the Song of Solomon) plays little role in shaping contemporary imaginations about what it means to be human. Often assumed to be simplistic love songs, these ancient Hebrew love poems hold beautiful and timely wisdom on the goodness of human love, the pr...

In the Garden of Delight: Reading the Song of Songs for a Broken World

by Joshua Chestnut

Feb 1, 2020

What was once the most popular and most commented-on book in all of the scriptures, the Song of Songs (or sometimes called the Song of Solomon) plays little role in shaping contemporary imaginations about what it means to be human. Often assumed to be simplistic love songs, these ancient Hebrew love poems hold beautiful and timely wisdom on the goodness of human love, the problematic dynamics of abused power, the significance of place as well as the delight of life with God.

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