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Select Bibliography on Song of Songs

A VERY FULL and helpful bibliography, arranged broadly chronologically to run from the early Christian centuries until the present, is to be found in Pope’s commentary on Song of Songs (cited below).

Allender, D. B., and T. Longman III. Intimate Allies. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale, 1995.

Alster, B. “Sumerian Love Songs.” RA 79 (1985): 127–59.

Astell, A. W. The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1990.

Ayo, N. Sacred Marriage: The Wisdom of the Song of Songs. New York: Continuum, 1997.

Bergant, D. “ ‘My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His’ (Song 2:16): The Song of Songs and Honor and Shame.” Semeia 68 (1994): 23–40.

———. Song of Songs: The Love Poetry of Scripture. Spiritual Commentaries. Hyde Park, N.Y.: New City Press, 1998.

Bernard of Clairvaux. The Song of Songs: Selections from the Sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Ed. H. C. Backhouse. Hodder & Stoughton Christian Classics. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.

Bloch, A., and C. Bloch, Song of Songs. New York: Random House, 1995.

Boadt, L., ed. The Song of Solomon: Love Poetry of the Spirit. CBS. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999.

Brenner, A. “Aromatics and Perfumes in the Song of Songs.” JSOT 25 (1983): 75–81.

———. The Song of Songs. OTG. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

———. “Come Back, Come Back the Shulammite (Song of Songs 7:1–10): A Parody of the wasf Genre.” Pp. 251–75 in On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible. Ed. Y. Radday. BL 23. Sheffield: Almond, 1990.

———. “A Note on bat-rabbim (Song of Songs 7:5).” VT 42 (1992): 113–15.

———, ed. A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Brenner, A., and F. van Dijk-Hemmes. On Gendering Texts: Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible. BibIntS 1. Leiden: Brill, 1993.

Carnes, P. Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict. Minneapolis: CompCare, 1989.

———. Don’t Call It Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction. New York: Bantam, 1991.

Carr, G. L. “The Old Testament Love Songs and Their Use in the New Testament.” JETS 24 (1981): 97–105.

———. The Song of Solomon. TOTC 17. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1984.

Casey, M. Athirst for God: Spiritual Desire in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs. CSS 77. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1988.

Cooper, J. S. “New Cuneiform Parallels to the Song of Songs.” JBL 90 (1971): 157–62.

Davidson, J. M. “Theology of Sexuality in the Song of Songs: Return to Eden.” AUSS 27 (1989): 1–19.

Davidson, R. Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon. DSBOT. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986.

Dirksen, P. B. “Song of Songs 3:6–7.” VT 39 (1989): 219–25.

Dorsey, D. A. “Literary Structuring in the Song of Songs.” JSOT 46 (1990): 81–96.

Elder, D. The Song of Songs and Enlightenment: A Metaphysical Interpretation. Marina del Rey, Calif.: DeVorss, 1988.

Elliott, M. T. The Literary Unity of the Canticle. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Emerton, J. A. “Lice or a Veil in the Song of Songs 1:7?” Pp. 127–40 in Understanding Poets and Prophets: Essays in Honour of George Wishart Anderson. Ed. A. G. Auld. JSOTS 152. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993.

Exum, C. “A Literary and Structural Analysis of the Song of Songs.” ZAW 85 (1973): 47–79.

Falk, M. Love Lyrics from the Bible: A Translation and Literary Study of the Song of Songs. BL 4. Sheffield: Almond, 1982.

———. The Song of Songs. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.

Fox, M. V. The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. Madison, Wis: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

Fuerst, W. J. Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Lamentations. CBC. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1975.

Garrett, D. A. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs. NAC 14. Nashville: Broadman, 1993.

Giles of Rome. Commentary on the Song of Songs and Other Writings. Ed. J. E. Rotelle. The Augustinian Series 10. Villanova, Pa.: Augustinian Press, 1998.

Ginsburg, C. D. The Song of Songs and Coheleth (Commonly Called the Book of Ecclesiastes). The Library of Biblical Studies. New York: Ktav, 1970.

Gledhill, T. The Message of the Song of Songs: The Lyrics of Love. BST. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1994.

Glickman, S. C. A Song for Lovers. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1976.

Gollwitzer, H. Song of Love: A Biblical Understanding of Sex. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979.

Gordis, R. The Song of Songs and Lamentations. Rev. ed. New York: Ktav, 1974.

Goulder, M. D. The Song of Fourteen Songs. JSOTS 36. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1986.

Gregory of Nyssa. From Glory to Glory: Texts from Gregory of Nyssa’s Mystical Writings. Trans. and ed. H. Musurillo. New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary, 1979.

Grober, S. F. “The Hospitable Lotus: A Cluster of Metaphors: An Inquiry into the Problem of Textual Unity in the Song of Songs.” Semitics 9 (1984): 86–112.

Grossberg, D. “Two Kinds of Sexual Relationship in the Hebrew Bible.” Hebrew Studies 35 (1994): 1–25.

Ibn Ezra, A. ben Meir, and R. A. Block. Ibn Ezra’s Commentary on the Song of Songs (Perush Ibn ‘Ezra ‘Al Shir Ha-Shirim). Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1982.

Jinbachian, M. “The Genre of Love Poetry in the Song of Songs and the Pre-Islamic Arabian Odes.” BT 48 (1997): 123–37.

Kallas, E. “Martin Luther As Expositor of the Song of Songs.” LQ 2 (1988): 323–41.

Keel, O. The Song of Songs. Continental Commentaries. Trans. F. J. Gaiser. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.

Knight, G. A. F., and F. W. Golka. Revelation of God: A Commentary on the Books of the Song of Songs and Jonah. ITC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.

Lacocque, A. Romance, She Wrote: A Hermeneutical Essay on Song of Songs. Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1998.

Landy, F. Paradoxes of Paradise: Identity and Difference in the Song of Songs. BL 7. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1983.

———. “The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden.” JBL 98 (1979): 513–28.

Laurin, R. B. “The Song of Songs and Its Modern Message.” CT 6 (1961–1962): 1062–63.

Leahy, F. S. “The Song of Songs in Pastoral Teaching.” EvQ 27 (1955): 205–13.

Levine, M. H. “The Song of Solomon: A Dream Ballet.” Dor Le Dor 14 (1986): 166–74.

Lewis, C. S. The Four Loves. London: Fontana Books, 1976.

Luther, M. “Lectures on the Song of Solomon.” Pp. 191–264 in Luther’s Works, vol. 15. Ed. J. Pelikan. St. Louis: Concordia, 1972.

Maloney, G. A. Singers of the New Song: A Mystical Interpretation of the Song of Songs. Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria, 1985.

Mason, M. The Mystery of Marriage. Portland: Multnomah, 1985.

Mazor, Y. “The Song of Songs or the Story of Stories? ‘The Song of Songs’: Between Genre and Unity.” SJOT 1 (1990): 1–29.

Meyers, C. “Gender Imagery in the Song of Songs.” HAR 10 (1986): 209–23.

Mulder, M. J. “Does Canticles 6:12 Make Sense?” Pp. 104–13 in The Scriptures and the Scrolls. FS A. S. van der Woude. Ed. F. García Martínez, A. Hilhorst, and C. J. Labuschagne. VTS 49. Leiden: Brill, 1992.

Munro, J. L. Spikenard and Saffron: A Study in the Poetic Language of the Song of Songs. JSOTSup 203. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Murphy, R. E. “The Biblical Model of Human Intimacy: The Song of Songs.” Pp. 61–66 in The Family in Crisis or in Transition: A Sociological and Theological Perspective. Ed. A. Greeley. New York: Seabury, 1979.

———. The Song of Songs. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.

Murphy, R. E., and E. Huwiler. Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs. NIBC 12. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999.

Neusner, J. Israel’s Love Affair with God: Song of Songs. BJL. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1993.

Origen. The Song of Songs: Commentary and Homilies. Ancient Christian Writers 26. Trans. and annotated by R. P. Lawson. New York: Newman, 1957.

Parente, P. P. “The Canticle of Canticles in Mystical Theology.” CBQ 6 (1944): 142–58.

Pope, M. H. Song of Songs. AB 7C. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.

Rabin, C. “The Song of Songs and Tamil Poetry.” SR 3 (1973): 205–19.

Ratzhabi, Y. “Biblical Euphemisms for Human Genitals.” Beth Mikra 34 (1990): 192–96.

Richardson, J. P. “Preaching from the Song of Songs? Allegory Revisited.” Churchman 108 (1994): 135–42.

Sadgrove, M. “The Song of Songs As Wisdom Literature.” Pp. 245–48 in Studia Biblica 1978 I: Papers on Old Testament and Related Themes. Ed. E. A. Livingstone. JSOTSup 11. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1979.

Scruton, R. Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1986.

Segal, B. “The Themes of the Song of Songs.” Dor Le Dor 15 (1986–87): 106–13.

Smedes, L. B. Sex for Christians. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.

Snaith, J. G. The Song of Songs. NCB. London: Marshall Pickering, 1993.

Stadelmann, L. I. J. Love and Politics: A New Commentary on the Song of Songs. New York: Paulist, 1992.

Tanner, J. P. “The Message of the Song of Songs.” BSac 154 (1997): 142–61.

Teresa of Avila, “Meditation on the Song of Songs.” The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2. Trans. K. Kavanaugh and O. Rodriguez. Washington D.C.: ICS Publications, 1980.

Trible, P. God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

Turner, D. Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs. CSS 156. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1995.

Watson, W. G. E. “Love and Death Once More (Song of Songs 8:6).” VT 47 (1997): 385–86.

Webb, B. G. “The Song of Songs: A Love Poem and Holy Scripture.” RTR 49 (1990): 91–99.

Webster, E. C. “Pattern in the Song of Songs.” Pp. 154–72 in The Poetical Books. Ed. D. J. A. Clines. BSem 41. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Weems, R. J. “The Song of Songs” Pp. 361–434 in vol. 5 of The New Interpreter’s Bible. Nashville: Abingdon, 1997.

William of St. Thierry. Exposition on the Song of Songs. The Works of William of St. Thierry. CFS 6. Shannon: Irish Univ. Press, 1969.

Winsor, A. R. A King Is Bound in the Tresses: Allusions to the Song of Songs in the Fourth Gospel. StudBL 6. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

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