The Book of Wisdom, Song of Songs

Phipps, William E.; Reese, James M.

doi:10.2307/3260981

Journal of Biblical Literature

1985

DOI: 10.2307/3260981

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The Book of Wisdom, Song of Songs

William E. Phipps¹,

James M. Reese²

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“…Examples of scholars who explored the cultic and pagan rituals as a hermeneutical approach are Meek (1922/23) and Pope (1977). 6 Examples of scholars who use wisdom themes/lenses as a hermeneutical approach are Audet (1955), Winandy (1960), Sadgrove (1978), Childs (1979), Tromp (1979), Reese (1983), Oosthuizen (2014), and Andruska (2019). 7 Many scholars who acknowledge wisdom links to the Song of Songs do so tentatively and in the light of wisdom editors.…”

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What is spiritual about sexuality?

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2024

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Imaginative variations in hermeneutical approaches to Song of Songs show the interpreters’ struggle to understand the presence of this sexual text within the Holy Bible. Even the broad scholarly consensus, labelling the Song’s genre as “mere” love poetry signals the perception of an absence of theological meaning. The inability of interpreters to find theological meaning in an Israelite text about sexuality reflects a societal dualism where sexuality is viewed as secular and removed from the realm of spirituality. In this article, a frame of reference is constructed with typical wisdom characteristics and used as a lens with which to explore the meaning of Song of Songs. The frame of reference includes vocabulary, form, rhetoric, metaphors, anthropology, order, the threat of chaos, scepticism, critique, and knowledge of God. Using wisdom as a hermeneutical approach to reading Song of Songs uncovers a sexual theology that claims a Creator-conscious sexuality and a pleasure-affirming spirituality.

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