The Canonical Significance of the Song of Songs

No other book in the Bible is such a puzzle to commentators of every school, as the Song of Solomon. In the course of ages it has been overgrown with a maze of both mystical and literal interpretations and its literal form is subject to endless controversy. Yet the fault lies with the interpreters, with their failure to allow the book to speak to them and with their failure to adhere to right principles of exegesis. In ascertaining the canonical significance of the book, we are confronted by...