RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Personal Boundaries, Wisdom Literature
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He was the son of king david and apparently had quite the reputation with the women. Song of songs: wisdom for young jewish women. Thesis: the song of songs originated as a wisdom text from an edited collection of love songs. It had the function of teaching young jewish women propriety. The song as a collection of love poems. Is there a different message being given to men and women?: the author wonders if there is more going on in the text than just this simple message of marriage is better than pursuit and frustration. He says that he agrees with other scholars that the song of songs is actually a collection of poems. Note that he is a functionalist rather than a structuralist as the latter would be interested in a more allegorical read, like the one offered by camry].
