The Song of Songs

Hebrew scripture · c. 300 BCE · Scripture · Judeo-Christian · Ancient

A woman and a man address each other in turn, praising each other's bodies through orchards, spices, flocks and night streets, with a chorus of Jerusalem's daughters between them. There is no plot, no law and no mention of God - only search, meeting, separation and search again. The Bible's love-duet, frank and botanical; allegorized for millennia, still unmistakably erotic.

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Lineage

• ↓ The Divine Comedy
  Dante · c. 1320 CE · Poem — alludes to this
• ↓ Song of Solomon
  Toni Morrison · 1977 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ Song of Myself
  Walt Whitman · 1855 CE · Poem — influenced by this

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