In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experienced by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyalty and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out. Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, the point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived. God has chose the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love of his people.

Tom Gledhill explores The Message of The Song of Songs, part of the updated Bible Speaks Today series of Bible commentaries.

Book Information
ISBN 9781789744439
Author Tom Gledhill
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Inter-Varsity Press
Publisher Inter-Varsity Press