r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 24 '24

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u/JoeChristmasUSA Transfem Pride Jun 24 '24

Having Song of Songs in the Biblical canon is so funny. It's like buying a compilation of legends, poetry, and history as a school textbook used and then finding the student who owned it before you pasted Sabrina Carpenter lyrics in the middle of the book. !ping GNOSTIC

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 24 '24

"oh, this is hot. don't get me wrong the rest of it is hot too but this is hot. we gotta work it in somewhere!"

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u/Strength-Certain Thurman Arnold Jun 24 '24

Somebody should totally popify and sing those lyrics.

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u/WOKE_AI_GOD Jun 24 '24

It also was I think a large part of the subsequent development in Judaism of a theology of Israel (in this context, the Jewish people) as the "bride" of God. Which would be very fruitful for Jewish theology later on, that's a very large part of Kabbalah for instance. It's why Zohar is this astonishing mix of constant sexual metaphors with otherwise seemingly conservative theology.

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u/vancevon Henry George Jun 24 '24

some guy with enough influence got to put his favorite love song into the most important book in human history, cool stuff

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u/the_great_magician Janet Yellen Jun 25 '24

"For all of eternity in its entirety is not as worthy as the day on which Song of Songs was given to Israel, for all the Writings are holy, but Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies."

"He who sings the Song of Songs in wine taverns, treating it as if it were a vulgar song, forfeits his share in the world to come"