Talk:Song of Songs

Who was Shulamit?

I strongly support the theory that Shulamit and biblical Abishag are identical. So, the bride really existed, the lover evidently, and Salomon, with a strong incline to self-criticism, self-irony and, in this one case, self-restriction put the words in the bride's and especially in the lover's mouth, the latter being personally unknown to him. A great king and man - and be it only in this one case ...

He, Salomon, was the author, only he - later revisions are possible. If not he had been the author, who in later times, mostly more prudish ones, would have managed to create such an opus? Pretendly later-time loans are no contradiction because Salomon was, being a "multicultural" monarch, far beyond his time, and had a by far broader cultural background than e. g. his father David.

Conclusion: It' s no collection, it's one workmanship, and it is Salomon's - and it is the best love-song of the world forever.

Hellsepp 18:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)