tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004976916344809592.post6699865778368145253..comments2023-09-05T18:05:11.860-07:00Comments on Applying Biblical Truths Today: What Is Greatest RemainsAida & Billhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18317246132534054554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2004976916344809592.post-36527611623519708932020-07-29T01:28:38.733-07:002020-07-29T01:28:38.733-07:00Hello, a message for Aida -- I'm not sure how ...Hello, a message for Aida -- I'm not sure how else to contact you.<br /><br />Last year I somehow got onto the topic of polygamy and somehow also got on to the Song of Songs, which I had previously read may have been a love-triangle plot, a suggestion which I had found more plausible than the alternatives, but that I hadn't taken very far. Long story short, I ended up doing an extended study trying to figure out the plot and theme and messages and to decode the numerous images in the Song of Songs, and I appear to have ended up with the same approach and interpretation you have taken in your paper Song of Songs Celebrates God's Kind of Love. I only found this paper this week.<br /><br />My study I wrote up as a draft paper entitled Song of Solomon As a Monogyny Teaching (see https://www.academia.edu/40973431/Song_of_Solomon_As_a_Monogyny_Teaching ), which also identifies monogyny teachings in Ecclesiastes and in the flood account.<br /><br />The principal problem of interpreting the Song of Songs is decoding the mass of images and the task of identifying which characters speak which lines, in order to reconstruct a powerful drama based on a coherent and justified plot. This task is somewhat speculative and hit-or-miss, and quite hard to present as a condensed and easy-to-follow paper.<br /><br />However, I believe that the work I have done on this task, albeit as an untrained amatuer, is successful in unlocking extremely powerful images that help drive a lively and clever plot that drives home the key message in favour of monogynous love by tugging on the heart-strongs and building off of, and building up, true faith in YHWH and his social and family blueprint.<br /><br />When I compare with your paper, I see significant differences in attribution of lines to charaters, and that your paper doesn't delve into, attempt to decode or argue its points from the images in the Songs. For example, the reference to the woman as a more among Pharoah's chariots seems to contain a stinging rebuke of Solomon as being spiritually Egyptian, and in ensaring his women with expensive jewelry that controls them into peril and destruction.<br /><br />Anyway, this is enough, I hope you see my message and I'd love to correspond with you on any opportunity to develop your work on this wonderful musical drama.David Hillaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270742541175771322noreply@blogger.com