Song of Songs


Introduction to Song of Songs From the New American Bible

Song of Songs, The By Emil G. Hirsch and Crawford Howell Toy in The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1910

Canticle of Canticles Gerhard Gietmann, The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908

Shir Hashirim - Chapter 1 The text of Song of Songs with the commentary by the 11th century rabbi Rashi

Song of Songs iTanakh's collection of links, courtesy of R. Christopher Heard of Milligan College

The Aramaic Targum to Song of Songs English Translation by Jay C. Treat

What Should I Read on the Song of Solomon? James T. Dennison, Jr., in Kerux: The Journal of Northwest Theological Seminary

"Roomy Hearts" in a "More Spacious World": Origen of Alexandria and Ellen Davis on the Song of Songs By Jason Byassee, Anglican Theological Review, Fall 2006

Song Of Songs Rabba and the Mind-Body Problem Steven Kepnes, Colgate University, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2003

The History of Interpretation of the Song of Songs J. Paul Tanner, Bibliotheca Sacra, 1997

The Soul Takes Flight: Gregory of Nyssa and the Song of Songs By R. A. Norris, Anglican Theological Review, Fall 1998

Reading the Song Iconographically By Ellen Davis, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2003

Keeping it Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs By Roland Boer, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2007

What Does "Literal Meaning" Mean? Some Commentaries on the Song of Songs By Richard W. Corney, Anglican Theological Review, Fall 1998

Flesh And Word: Notes Towards A Postcritical Reading of the 'Song Of Songs' Oliver Davies, University of Wales, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2003

The Song of Songs Daniel W. Hardy, University of Cambridge, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2003

The Testament: Continuities and Discontinuities By Roland E. Murphy, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall 1999

Thinking of/With Scripture: Struggling for the Religious Significance of the Song of Songs Alon Goshen-Gottstein, The Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions, Jerusalem, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 2003

Song of Songs By Rabbi Louis Jacobs. The Rabbis taught: All the writings are holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies

Sights and Sounds of the Song of Songs Art, music, and various materials related to the Song of Songs

Hippolytus: On the Song of Songs Simon de Magistris, in his Acta Martyr. Ostiens., p. 274 adduces the following fragment in Latin and Syriac, from a Vatican codex, and prefaces it with these words: Hippolytus wrote on the Song of Solomon, and showed that thus early did God the Word seek His pleasure in the Church gathered from among the Gentiles, and especially in His most holy mother the Virgin; and thus the Syrians, who boasted that the Virgin was born among them, translated the Commentary of Hippolytus at a very early period from the Greek into their own tongue