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pia†desideria
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| Posted 9/6/2001 1:34 PM (GMT -6) |   | Wislawa, from your signature I take it you are a Song of Solomon fan.
So was Rabbi Aqiba (90 CE): “The whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Scriptures are holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies.”
According to Jean Leclercq, the Song of Solomon was “the book which was most read, and most frequently commented [upon] in the medieval cloister”—even more than the four Gospels.
Bernard of Clairvaux (12th c.) wrote 86 sermons on the first two chapters and a little bit of the third. He interpreted the “kiss” it speaks of to be Jesus Christ: “He it is whose speech, living and powerful, is to me a kiss…the imparting of joys, the revelation of secrets.”
I am my beloved’s
pia
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Wislawa
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| Posted 9/6/2001 6:56 PM (GMT -6) | | Pia you nailed it! give me the Song and Qoheleth and i think you've got the whole of reality in two texts. The world is simotainously the most Mind-Blowing and butt ugly place and these two texts get that down. for the folks you listed in support of the Song there were plenty of folks who hated it. i wrote a paper on it once, maybe ill look for it and post it if anyone is interested? it was about why God would but such a sexual book in there in the first place.
-Wislawa
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame [shalhevet-Yah = the very fire of Yah(weh)].
Canticles 8:6
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