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The Song of SongsTranslated by Peter JayForeword by![]() 10% off
Series: Poetica
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (64 pages) (Pub. Oct 1998) 9780856462863 £5.95 £5.36
The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of The Song of Songs lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual love. Perhaps the most famous and popular book of the Bible, it is usually – and yet mistakenly – thought of as a single long narrative poem. Scholars have proposed many theories of the book’s structure, but none is more natural than the view that it is a small anthology of quite distinct and varied lyric poems, composed over several centuries of Hebrew history. |
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