Songs Of Solomon Research Paper

There are many different viewpoints on the book of Songs of Solomon. Is it literally speaking of the intimate relationship of husband and wife, is it figurative for Christ and his church, is it allegory, meaning to be symbolic for something else. All the views can be seen as relatable in some way to this book. To me it seems as many in one have been combined into the text. I say that because all throughout the New Testament marriage is in comparison with Christ and the Church, nevertheless the book also depicts physical attributes which do not coincide with the relationship between Christ and the church. On the other hand many of the passages in the Songs of Solomon can be looked as allegory, but I do not believe that the entire book can be

But when Jesus unpacked the central message of the Old Testament to his disciples on the road to Emmaus, he didn’t focus on its value in providing practical teaching for their marriages. He declared that the central message of the Old Testament is the sufferings of Christ and the glories that will follow—that is, the gospel. What is more, the title of the book, “The Song of Songs,” is a superlative: it indicates that this poem is the finest of songs, in the same way that the Holy of Holies was the very holiest of places in the temple. Is human love, even within marriage, the worthy subject of the very best of songs? The Bible tells us that true love is not that we love one another, nor even that we love God. Rather, it is that God loved us and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:10). So the finest of songs surely has to point us in some profound way to God’s love for us in Christ, the love that entered our fallen world, lived the perfect life in our place, and suffered and died for our

30:19), yet that in this celebration will not only shape our thinking about human relationships but also show us profound insights into the love that Christ has for his bride, the church. To change the Goldsworthy analogy, suppose that the Sunday school teacher had described a sparrow and then gone on to teach her students about God’s care for the little sparrow and his far greater fatherly care for us. The sparrow is not Jesus; it remains just a sparrow. Yet the lesson that is drawn from the sparrow can and must still center appropriately on Jesus, as the One who shows us the full extent of God’s fatherly love and care for us. So, too, we don’t need to make the man in the Song of Songs into an allegory or a type of Jesus to see how the book points us to “the sufferings of Christ and the glories that will