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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Inscription "The lily of the valleys" from "Song of Solomon 2:1" on "Joyous Festivals 5713" stamp of Israel - 40 mil. Verse 1 closes a poetic section providing a 'picture of the bed as a spreading growth', using a theme of nature's floras, starting from the previous chapter with verses 1:16–17 focusing on the subject of trees and verse 2:1 on the subject of flowers.
This verse is a detached description of the book's content, containing two phrases: "the song of songs" and "which is Solomon's". [14] The "song of songs" (Hebrew: שיר השירים ha-15]): The form of the words indicates a superlative statement as the "Greatest of Songs", [16] but can also denote "a single poem composed of many poems".
Solomon uses passionate language to describe his bride and their love (Song 4:1–15). Solomon clearly loved the Shulammite—and he admired her character as well as her beauty (Song 6:9). Everything about the Song of Solomon portrays the fact that this bride and groom were passionately in love and that there was mutual respect and friendship ...
Song of Songs 3 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 3) is the third chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
The celebrated Armenian composer Komitas is inelegantly woven into this fictionalized story produced by Nick Vallelonga climaxing in the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s.
The date of composition of this midrash cannot be exactly determined. Song of Songs was interpreted aggadically at a very early time, and certain rules for this aggadic interpretation were formulated: for example, the rule adopted by Judah ben Ilai, [6] and the rule (in Shevuot 35b) for the interpretation of the name for Solomon used in Song of Songs.
Song of Songs 7 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 7) is the seventh chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]