The Message of Song of Songs
Description
In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experience by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyallity and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out.
Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, they point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chosen the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love for his people.
Part of The Good Book Company's Commentary List, this commentary has been selected because it not only deals faithfully and carefully with God's Word but is readable, practical and accessible as well.
Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, they point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chosen the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love for his people.
Part of The Good Book Company's Commentary List, this commentary has been selected because it not only deals faithfully and carefully with God's Word but is readable, practical and accessible as well.
Additional Information
| Author | Tom Gledhill |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9780851109671 |
| Dimensions | 135mm x 215mm |
| Pages | 254 |
| Publisher | IVP |
| No of Bible studies | N/A |
| Format | Paperback |
| Bible Book | Song of Songs |
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