Do you believe just in the view that the Song of Solomon is only about Solomon and a young woman he marries, as in your study<\/a>, along with the other wives he had? Or do you think there is more to it? I was wondering what your opinion on that was?<\/p>\n By the way for\u00a0a study\u00a0like that, how long does it take you to write it?<\/p>\n\t As I explained in\u00a0the introduction<\/a>, there are three basic views of the Song of Solomon:<\/p>\n The allegory view doesn’t fit many of the passages in the Song of Solomon. While you can pull many parallels because the church is the bride of Christ, the whole of Song of Solomon doesn’t match as an allegory.<\/p>\n To gain the three-way love story, you have to state that the poem is not presented in time order. Each scene jumps you either forward or backward in time. I’ve found this to be highly awkward and not obvious. You have to have the plotline in your head first, that various elements in the story are sliced out separately and applied to the plotline.<\/p>\n The story about a young woman marrying King Solomon creates a very smooth plotline. The scenes are in time order. Various subtle foreshadowing and puns come into play. In other words, it becomes a very unified story. The only thing that is awkward is the fact that Solomon already had multiple wives when he married this woman. It grates on our sensibility that there can be this deep of love when one involved is polygamous.<\/p>\n All of my studies are done in stages. I will come up with a study topic and teach it using a rough outline and a set of questions for handouts. The next time I teach the same material, I will write up my notes in full. Then sometime later I will re-read and edit the workbook. Finally, I’ll see about getting copies printed. The Song of Solomon study<\/a>\u00a0took about six months to write, but I continue to improve it. For instance, three years ago I taught this in a meeting in upstate New York and in preparation I added numerous pictures to the text to illustrate what was being talked about. The\u00a0Ezekiel study<\/a>\u00a0took a year to write and teach the rough outline. I don’t know when I’ll be writing it up in full. My current\u00a0study on the Gospel accounts<\/a>\u00a0is heading into its third year and is being written out in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Do you believe just in the view that the Song of Solomon is only about Solomon and a young woman he marries, as in your study, along with the other wives he had? Or do you think there is more to it? I was wondering what your opinion on that was? By the way…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[786,792],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-solomon","tag-song-of-solomon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2160,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-in-the-bible-did-a-jewish-woman-become-queen\/","url_meta":{"origin":14349,"position":0},"title":"Where in the Bible did a Jewish woman become queen?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What chapter in the Bible did a Jewish woman become queen? 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