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The Surprising Parts of the Song of Songs - Coggle Diagram
The Surprising Parts of the Song of Songs
Female Narrator
Woman is obsessed with her lover to a fault
5:7
"Making their rounds in the city the sentinels found me; they beat me, they wounded me, they took away my mantle"
Woman expresses a distinctly erotic desire for her man
Erotic poetry in the Bible is inherently surprising
2:6
"O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
Israel's relationship to God being depicted erotically
Woman is monogamous with her Man
Assertive Sexuality
Sexuality reduced to her desire for her husband-to-be. She discusses nothing else
Woman is monogamous with her Man
Erotic garden language
Allusion to Adam & Eve, indicating the couple in Song of Songs is also free of sin
The man and woman solely desire each other, no extramarital sexual relations
4:12
"A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed
Woman craves her man's erotic touch
5:4
"My beloved thrust his hand into the opening, and my inmost being yearned for him."
Erotic Imagery
Erotic joining of gardens
4:16
"Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits"
5:4
Fetishizing the body of the female
7:7-8
"You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. 8 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. O may your breasts by like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like apples"
2:14
"Let me see you face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely"
Allusion to Moses wanting to see/be intimate with God
Man (God) can demand to see Woman (Israel), Woman (Israel) cannot demand to see Man (God)
Song of Songs Interpretation:
Allegory for relationship between Yahweh (male) and Israel (female)