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Song of Songs: Desire, Wisdom, and the Gift of Human Love

Song of Songs: Desire, Wisdom, and the Gift of Human Love

Markel, Ben

Paperback

Bible StudiesChristian Living

ISBN13: 9798171489311
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 9 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if Song of Songs isn't a problem to solve, but a poem to read? For centuries, Christians have approached Song of Songs with everything from elaborate allegories to embarrassed silence. Kisses became divine revelation. Breasts became theological concepts. And sometimes it seemed easier simply to skip the book altogether. But Song of Songs does not apologize for what it is. It is a poem about desire. About a woman who wants to be kissed. A man who cannot stop telling her she is beautiful. Two people who search for one another, delight in one another, guard intimacy, give themselves freely, and discover that love is powerful enough to make another human being profoundly precious. Song of Songs: Desire, Wisdom, and the Gift of Human Love follows the poem on its own terms. Across fourteen studies, Ben Markel traces its vineyards and gardens, longing and absence, friendship and sexuality, walls and open gates, wisdom and delight-allowing the Song's repeated words, images, and movements to build their own meaning. This is not an attempt to sanitize the Song, nor to reduce it to a Christian marriage manual. And it does not require turning every kiss, breast, goat, pomegranate, and gazelle into an elaborate theological code. Instead, it asks what happens when we simply read the poem carefully.

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