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Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 years

  • Written by Jonathan Kaplan, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, The University of Texas at Austin
Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 yearsFiguring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries.'Song of Songs' illustrated by Florence Kingsford/Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia Commons

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