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Article: Song of Songs.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Song of Songs. By J. CHERYL EXUM. The Old Testament Library. Louisville: WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 263. $39.95.
For such a small book, the Song of Songs has always received a prodigious amount of attention, and 2005 was a lively year again for the production of major studies of it. In addition to Exum's book under review here, there were also: Richard S. Hess, Song of Songs (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005); P. W. T. Stoop-van Paridon, The Song of Songs: A Philological Analysis of the Hebrew Book Sir hassirim (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 17; Louvain: Peeters, 2005); and a ...