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WT Sharpe · 08-13-2010, 07:22 PM

It's interesting to speculate how the Song of Songs ever came to be considered holy scripture by the early Hebrews in the first place. In The Teaching Company's Old Testament course, Professor Amy-Jill Levine states that, "Its literary parallels are less Proverbs and Ecclesiastes than Egyptian love poetry."

08-13-2010, 07:22 PM	#370
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	It's interesting to speculate how the *Song of Songs* ever came to be considered holy scripture by the early Hebrews in the first place. In The Teaching Company's Old Testament course, Professor Amy-Jill Levine states that, "Its literary parallels are less Proverbs and Ecclesiastes than Egyptian love poetry."