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My favorite is Song of Songs 7:7 "Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit. 8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruit.”
Without any sugar the honey was the sweetest thing of the ancient world. No wonder it is mentioned so often in connection with love poetry... I suppose.
It's also very specific. When you read something like that, you realize you're reading about what a real man wrote to a real woman. All the other songs have descriptions that are vague and applicable to any woman of reasonable looks. But this line is clearly about a very special lady.
I think for the neck, the whole bucklers like shields of warriors, it would make the most sense as jewelry, as I’m sure there are tons of examples of wealthy women in that area and that time would have lots of jewelry. Not a sure fire guess, but I think it makes a good amount of sense.
I had a guy actually sling some verses from this on me un-ironically as a pick up line and it was easily the most uncomfortable experience of my life. Being told you have goat hair and sheep teeth hits a bit different 2000 years later.
Always the Catholic churches here in the Philippines use Song of Songs as an allegory to Jesus and the church. What you said was spot on! I dunno why they just couldn't take it as it is. It's actually an interesting book in the bible.
What you do not understand is, that Bible Has multiple leyers. Ther is literary leyer you are advocating for, and it is absolutely beautiful on when it comes to the use of poeatry and story telling. But there are more leyers to it. Christians should acknowledge every single one of them.
I'm curious if it has to do with the early church's connections to Greek philosophy. Gnosticism has always been a thorn in the side of Christianity, which teaches that the body is impure and dirty and the soul/spirit is holy and pure. The bible never teaches that sex within the confines of marriage is impure or immoral, but is something to be enjoyed. God's first commandment to Adam and Eve is to be fruitful and multiply.
I find it interesting how so many christian complain about modern songs being all "sexual" or "suggestive"...like have they not read Song of Solomon? But then again, it can be the artist behind it.
As s kid I've been to this wonderful country, and apart from unpleasant city smells (expected, considering the heat) I wouldn't complain abou the smells. There's sea, mountains and lots of vegetation. For an ancient world Phoenicia was probably smelling really nice
@@LastBastion I have no idea. If they _have_ reforested the storied cedars of Lebanon, that awful port explosion in 2021 has probably required the cutting down of those forests for rebuilding efforts.
Not a long time ago I was reading this book about Hebrew alphabet and the author has quoted the same love poem that has been talked about in this video (which I really enjoyed, as always!:D) I will never forget this scholar said there that she has been confused for a really long time about the breast metaphor: but one of her students came to her and said "maybe the writer used it to represent the movement of a woman's breast while walking and/or running since there were no bras at the time, they were for real free to move and jump like fawns!". This interpretation stuck in my mind so fast and It is perfectly explanatory to me! About the David's tower neck metaphor (this is just my idea), I think the author is just saying that her loved one has no fear of her femininity and that she is strong and proud of who she is, because It is easy to picture the opposite: an old lady has usually a curved neck and back and she is fragile and her figure is used as an image of lost beauty. Let me know what you think about these interpretations!:)
tower of david....psalms of david chanting and proclamating god and his powers and protections aka shields for this troth shakra aka voice. voice=sound is control of the heavens inside aka energy field. deer and bresth's as lilies aka lilith aka diana deer hunter (babylon and vatican and hollywood), aka isis mother of jezus aka maria I and J (isis and jezus) = Y=yahova=yahobath desert goat god from south egypt/ethiopia yes there yahova aka yahobath aka the beast is onerd here as well exactly the bs as the rest of the contradictions and curses and dead's of yahova aka yahobath in the bible. lamb of god yeh goat baby is also called a lamb good luck christians if you stay only the flawless will be spitt out not the pro-christ nor the anti-christ followers
@@wallijacanero1532 thank you for asking. i gave my idea about the the tower of david and the breasth. if you cant follow it so be it. no problem. maybe my last words where a little hars but not to u, so sorry for that. i was a little irritated by some dude so i sended him this replay. later i saw your comment so i did copy past but forgot exactly what i had ritten to this dude. so no negativity to you :) have a great day
@@M.C.G. Yeah, I felt some negativity and I was questioning myself If I had said something offensive in my first comment, but now I feel reassured. Thank you for sharing your point of view on the poem here, I have found your interpretation about the tower really interesting. Hope that guy didn't say something offensive and I wish you a great day ahead too! :)
Oh lord, I remember long ago when I was in Bible class and me and another kid would flip to the Song of Solomon, and would giggle our heads off (because you know kids).
As someone who had read the Song of Songs, I agree that the descriptions were very... interesting. I think that was one of the reasons why I love Song of Songs out of most of the Bible. My parent is religious, and they sometimes respond to moments with Song of Songs, to a point, I have somewhat memorised the entire structure of the entire Poetry.
I grew up on science fiction & a little bit of fantasy, so when I would get bored during a sermon in church I would read Revelation, starting AFTER the part where he just talks about all the churches. Had to get right to the action! If I thoughtfully nodded on occasion, then my grandmother would get compliments on my behavior, too! Bonus! I think it was Piers Anthony who wrote a series based on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, or at least starting there but it is been a long time since I've read those. Never in church though. By that time there was too much note-passing going on amongst the youth group so I never got bored again.
Shields hanging from her neck sounds like it’s referring to jewellery. Tbh the pomegranate halves kind of makes me think this girl had an issue with zits, but I guess it depends which half of the pomegranate is facing out 😂
I was raised Christian. It's amazing whats taught vs What's actually in the Bible. I'm not religious anymore, but I'm loving the videos. No one's died from too much knowledge
Well that is probably because the overwhelming majority of weird content from the Bible is within the Old Testament, while most Christian denominations are based mostly on the New Testament.
The Tower of David could be the opposite version of the Tower of Babel. And since David killed Goliath and became the greatest king ever it could be a reference to him.
Now this was honestly one of your best videos, even with all thr recent ones you've been churning out being incredible on their own. I had no idea of these ancient love poems and songs, and it's touching in a way, that you can feel the tenderness and love put into those words written so long ago. Beauitful.
Doves: the shape somewhat Goats: good hair with curls(cuz horns?) Hews: good strong stright teeth prly cuz smile Lips: crimson thread cuz nice red/pink lips Pom cheecks: cute and rosey with freckles of some sort Davids tower :long/slender neck Bucklers/sheilds on neck: Jewlery/flashy neckwear Breasts: plumpish/ perky? /peaking cuz doe’s do that sort of thing Lips: nectar (self explanatory) Tounge: milk and honey because sweet n thick viscousness cuz kissing etc
We've just had a test from the Bible today and one of the questions was just about this book. It may be a bit too late but it's still good to learn something more
Now that’s a thumbnail! I’m impressed. It looks fantastic. Haven’t watch the video yet but the thumbnail seems to capture its essence perfectly, promising a good watch.
I believe that the line discussing that “love is greater than death” can be a reference/prophecy of the death of Christ and His resurrection. Christ followers, such as myself, believe that Christ’s death conquered death, or an eternity of suffering in hell, and allowed us to have eternal life with God in heaven. With that being said, many of the songs in The Song of Songs (aka Song of Solomon) are actually worship songs; celebrating God’s glory and love and describing what a relationship with Him should be/feel like. For me, it is very hard to understand the use of love in a sexual connotation, but I also remember that love had many different meanings then and even different cultural understandings of the word too. Those are just my thoughts though!
You can't understand sexual love? Regardless you can see how physical admiration makes up a big part of this. Makes it tough to extrapolate liturgical worship from references to the body of a woman that are already metaphors
I've had an NIV Adventure Bible (which literally says "#1 Bible for Kids" on the cover) since I was five years old. I distinctly remember flipping through Song of Songs and progressively getting more and more freaked out, like: "How does ANYONES eyes look like doves?" "wWHO the heck has tiddies that look like baby deer??" "Imagine having cheeks that look like they're made of spices 😭"
In Russian having a honey on the tongue refers to person's speech being friendly/sweet. For example, a love confession that is extra would be considered a "honey speech".
Yes, I've long ago noticed and appreciated the Song of Songs (along with the Book of Job) as favorite parts of the Bible... You've done a great job here, talking about, and explaining, the Song of Songs... Even your advertisement for Manscape was amazing (a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down easy)... I love this posting like a flock of ibex on a snowy mountaintop.
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Perhaps her neck like the tower of David represented her strong faith, not easily turning away from God. But then I have no idea about the shields lol maybe it described a modest necklace she wore rather than lavish jewelry
... I remember growing up in a Christian family who were huge fans of Mark Lowry, a Christian comedian I personally was really into as well. He had some insane music video about one of these biblical love letters that completely opened my eyes it just how freaking beyond comprehension the bible could be at times and really introduced me to the whole wide world of biblical otherworldliness.
The Compendium (Bible) is a collection of books that were popularly accepted by Jews/Christians. Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs(etc) were popular literature and included in our religious texts for both spiritual & everyday entertainment.
Cool video! Part of the magic of poetry I love is putting the suggestion of images in your head. Poetry gets to be made up in the imaginations of the writer and the audience. Putting together a literal image was fun XD
Esther wasn't a religious book either. There is no mention of God at all. We were always told that Song of Songs was "God's love poems to his people." But Solomon had so many wifes and concubines that I'm leaning more towards he just wrote them for the ladies in his life.
@@Noam_.Menashe Someone told me that it was put in there to prove that God was looking out for all his chose people, even the ones who chose to assimilate into "secular" communities.
its cool seeing how much similarity these ancient poems and arabic poems have in common, arabic poems also have these "weird" comparisons in them that were used in very very old poems and are still used in modern ones
