Femininity and the Bible The Song of Solomon

Banciu Alexandra 2 st year

The King Solomon

most glorious king in the history of Israel acquired great wealth built a great temple enjoyed all kind of entertainment. one of the largest harems in world history not the friend of labor offered himself all kinds of sexual pleasures authority strong body, imposing stature glumly eyes

The Song of Songs (a poem and a song)

Song of Solomon -a musical based upon historical facts

contains also fiction Solomons greatest song Solomon- negative character, and the Shulamite womanthe heroine. The Song of Songs- the last suspect from The Bible neither theological, nor even religious but rather heterosexual love that has a erotic manifestation the Love expressed in The Song of Songs, is not a earthly love.

 Love

of this kind, frequently, contains some admixture of the unchaste and the illicit, on account of which the description of such love dose not seem appropriate to the canonical book of sacred scripture written at the diction of the holly spirit
Nicholas of Lyre ( Mary Dove, Ch. Merely a love poem? p. 135, 2001).

the lovers do not love with unconditional mutuality . And why? in medieval secular romance, it is the man who desires, and the woman who bestows favors

God had created the Shulamite Woman for her Right Man; but she was so beautiful that Solomon secured her for his harem. When a woman inherits natural beauty, she often becomes the object of illicit conquests. Pastor Wood

Imagery drawn from the worlds of nature and human endeavour makes little sense when applied to the female form as literal and, it is often presumed, complimentary description. Fiona Black
(The Song of Songs: a feminist companion to the Bible)

Kate Bush The song of Solomon" The Song of Solomon The song of everyone Who walks the path Of the solitary heart The soul cries out Hear a woman singing Don't want your bullshit, yeah Just want your sexuality Don't want excuses, yeah Write me your poetry in motion Write it just for me, yeah And sing it with a kiss Mmm, just take any line Comfort me with apples For I am sick of love His left hand is under my head And his right hand Doth embrace me" This is the Song of Solomon Here's a woman singing

Don't want your bullshit, yeah Just want your sexuality Don't want your excuses, yeah Write me your poetry in motion Write it just for me, yeah And sign it with a kiss

And I'll do it for you I'll be the Rose of Sharon for you I'll do it for you I'll be the Lily of the Valley for you I'll do it for you I'll be Isolde or Marion for you I'll do it for you Ooh I'll come in a hurricane for you I'll do it for you A wop bam boom
Don't want your bullshit, yeah Just want your sexuality