The Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible: Inner-Biblical Allusions Embodied by Solomon and the Daughters of Jerusalem
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A digital copy of my PhD thesis in full, edited and updated for a public audience.
Extant interpretations of the Song of Songs span almost two millennia, yet there is no decisive consensus as to the meaning of this book.
“King Solomon” and “daughters of Jerusalem” are appellations which embody links to other biblical texts, or more accurately to literary figures generated by multiple texts across the canon. Yet their identities have been treated with disinterest by scholars who claim that Solomon’s name represents nothing more than a glamorous backdrop to the Song, and that the daughters are an isolated literary invention who exist merely so the woman has somebody to speak to.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the identities of Solomon and the daughters of Jerusalem within the Song as potential points of contact with other parts of Hebrew scripture. The inner-biblical allusions uncovered suggest a new interpretative direction for the Song of Songs. Far from sitting uncomfortably alongside its fellows in the Hebrew Bible, the Song is revealed to be bound tightly into the fabric of the canon by a complex network of previously invisible threads.
Extant interpretations of the Song of Songs span almost two millennia, yet there is no decisive consensus as to the meaning of this book.
“King Solomon” and “daughters of Jerusalem” are appellations which embody links to other biblical texts, or more accurately to literary figures generated by multiple texts across the canon. Yet their identities have been treated with disinterest by scholars who claim that Solomon’s name represents nothing more than a glamorous backdrop to the Song, and that the daughters are an isolated literary invention who exist merely so the woman has somebody to speak to.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the identities of Solomon and the daughters of Jerusalem within the Song as potential points of contact with other parts of Hebrew scripture. The inner-biblical allusions uncovered suggest a new interpretative direction for the Song of Songs. Far from sitting uncomfortably alongside its fellows in the Hebrew Bible, the Song is revealed to be bound tightly into the fabric of the canon by a complex network of previously invisible threads.
