Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) Analysis

Have you ever heard people talk about Song of Songs as describing wedding? That's definitely one way of looking at it. See, back in the day, there were elaborate wedding festivals where stuff like...

When you think of love poetry, you probably think of Shakespeare. Petrarch. Neruda. One Direction. But whoever wrote Song of Songs was in the love poetry business long before those guys. Doesn't se...

You've probably heard people call this book by two different names: "Song of Songs" and "Song of Solomon." Seems like a pretty big difference—what with the addition of a King's name and all—so...

You'd think that at the end, the lovers would either get together or die, right? Anyone who's seen a romantic comedy or read a Shakespeare tragedy knows how that works. Well, these two definit...

Check out our thoughts in "Hot-Button Issues" and "Erotic Imagery" for more on this, but let's just say, sometimes a fig tree isn't just a fig tree. The Song of Songs might not read like erotic poe...

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Take a gander at this passage from Song of Songs 2:10-12My beloved speaks and says to me:"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter...