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Song of Solomon |
The Song of Songs, is a book of the Hebrew Bible?Tanakh or Old
Testament?one of the five megillot (scrolls). It can also be known as the
Song of Solomon, Solomon's Song of Songs, or as Canticles, the latter from
the shortened and anglicized Vulgate title Canticum Canticorum, "Song of Songs"
in Latin.
The Song of Songs is interpreted in some traditions as an allegorical
representation of the relationship of God and Israel as husband and wife.[3] In
most translations the main characters of the Song are simply a woman and a man,
and the poem suggests movement from courtship to consummation. However, recent
scholarship of the ancient manuscripts shows that both the speaker and the
addressee are masculine, and the early texts identify the speaker as "Asher" -
most probably Asher, the son of Solomon.
It is one of the shortest books in the Bible, consisting of only 117 verses.
According to Ashkenazi tradition, it is read on the Sabbath that falls during
the intermediate days of Passover. In the Sephardi Jewish community it is
recited every Friday night.
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