Song of Songs

["Karen L. Newcombe" <kln@crl.com>]

RE: Song of Songs . . . Much scholarship on this subject, especially in recent years as women become more prominent in biblical and early middle eastern scholarship.  Some experts believe Song is a pre- or early- Judaic wedding song
apparetnly patterned after similar songs in Egyptian and other local cultures.
The theory has been presented that this piece was written by a woman or
women, since it has a very different tone than the rest of the works from
the same period, which tend to be "public" documents.  

P.S. Interesting feature article in August issue of Atlantic Magazine on
related subjects i.e. women scholars of the bible.  

Hope this piques your curiosity!

                           Karen Newcombe  kln@crl.com

                   ". . . and long and white are my fingers
                          as the ninth wave of the sea."