Song of Songs is a great book to understand God’s love but many people have difficulty in understanding it. Some people feel it shouldn’t be in the Bible. If you read it without understanding it, you will consider it not more than a worldly literature. But this book is much deeper than many people think it is. This book doesn’t only talk about the love of God, it also talks about worship, spiritual warfare, prayer, second coming of Christ, crucifixion of Jesus, power in the blood of Christ, spiritual gifts and much more. The interpretation/ commentary I have written explains the “Song of Songs” in depth. You will find a pleasant relationship between the symbolism used in the form of different trees, flowers, vegetation, animals, places, and the church. While writing this book, I had been praying that I may write whatever the Spirit of God wants me to write. So I believe this book is full of revelations given by the Holy Spirit. You will find a new dimension to look at things. While reading, you will not only understand the verses of Song of Songs, but you will also gain the understanding of many other related scriptures in the Bible. I am sure that this book will be a blessing for you and for the people with whom you will share the teachings given in this book. Stay blessed Bp. Dr. Imran Bhatti

Song of Songs is a great book to understand God's love but many people have difficulty in understanding it. Some people feel it shouldn't be in the Bible. If you read it without understanding it, you will consider it not more than a worldly literature. But this book is much deeper than many people think it is. This book doesn't only talk about the love of God, it also talks about worship, spiritual warfare, prayer, second coming of Christ, crucifixion of Jesus, power in the blood of Christ, spiritual gifts and much more. The interpretation/ commentary I have written explains the "Song of Songs" in depth. You will find a pleasant relationship between the symbolism used in the form of different trees, flowers, vegetation, animals, places, and the church. While writing this book, I had been praying that I may write whatever the Spirit of God wants me to write. So I believe this book is full of revelations given by the Holy Spirit. You will find a new dimension to look at things. While reading, you will not only understand the verses of Song of Songs, but you will also gain the understanding of many other related scriptures in the Bible. I am sure that this book will be a blessing for you and for the people with whom you will share the teachings given in this book. Stay blessed Bp. Dr. Imran Bhatti

This is the first English translation of a major work by Rupert of Deutz, arguably the most prolific Christian author since Augustine. During his lifetime, which spanned the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Rupert engaged in controversies on the Eucharist and on predestination and composed works on the Trinity, salvation in Christ, and other major theological topics. An ardent defender of a monastic theology that focused on the interpretation of Scripture and the liturgy, Rupert is well known also for his distinctive hermeneutical approach to the Bible. His Commentary on the Songs of Songs builds on the long Hebrew-Christian tradition of allegorical interpretation of this Old Testament book but adds a radically original dimension to it: it interprets the text as a dialogue between Jesus and Mary and unfolds in this context a novel approach to Mary, who is presented as the teacher of the apostles and assumed to have participated in the Apostolic Council, described in Acts 15. Rupert has prefaced his commentary with a letter to Thietmar, bishop of Verden (in northern Germany), as well as a prologue in which he reflects on his experience of being called to perform this exegetical task. The complete translation by Jieon Kim and Vittorio Hösle of this major work (up to now translated only into German) is preceded by an introduction that discusses Rupert's life and works, as well as the history of the interpretation of the Song of Songs, and offers hermeneutical reflections on Rupert's methodology.

The Song of Songs, traditionally attributed to Solomon, is a collection of lyrics that celebrate in earthly terms the love of a bridegroom and a bride. Throughout the course of early Christian history, the Song of Songs was widely read as an allegory of the love of Christ both for the church and for its individual members. In reading the Song this way, Christians were following in the steps of Jewish exegetes who saw the Song as celebrating the love of God for Israel. In The Song of Songs, the inaugural volume of The Church's Bible, Richard A. Norris Jr. uses commentaries and sermons from the church's first millennium to illustrate the original Christian understanding of Solomon's beautiful poem. In recent times, the Song of Songs has been more a focus of literary than of religious interest, but Norris's work shows that for early Christians, this text was counted, with the Psalms and the Gospels, among those Scriptures that touched most deeply on the believer's relation to God. All in all, Norris's Song of Songs is a masterful work that aptly acquaints contemporary readers with the church's traditional way of discerning in this text a guide to the character of Christian belief and life. This volume -- and the entire Church's Bible series -- will be welcomed by preachers, teachers, students, and general readers alike.

A monumental project which brings the English-speaking work key selections from the remarkable literature of early Christianity -- veritable treasures of Christian faith and theology in superb translations.

This addition to the well-received Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible offers theological exegesis of the Song of Songs.

Jenson focuses on the overt sense of the book as an erotic love poem in order to discover how this evocative poetry solicits a theological reading.

Mark W. Elliott presents a range of interpretations of the imagery used in the Song of Songs and demonstrates how the figures of the Bridegroom and Bride were understood. He pays attention to the historical context of those commenting on the Song between the councils of Constantinople 381 and Chalcedon 451, including theological disputes and spiritual movements. Showing how they found significance in such an unlikely text leads on to the conclusion that the commentators are largely in agreement that the Song refers to a meeting of the Word of God in his incarnate form, reaching out to all humanity, and the collective humanity, viewed in the obedient responsiveness of a bride. This responsive collective humanity is described variously in terms of 'church', believing soul, soul of Christ and humanity of Christ. Mark W. Elliott selects specifically Christological readings (i.e. those which interpret the Song with reference to the incarnation) and gives some reasons for the demise of such an interpretation and of commentary writing as a whole during that period.