What is it about?
Most readers know that the Song of Songs is about romantic love, but they don't realize that the Song's idea of love has been fashioned on the Greek Eros. In the verses discussed here, we see the Greek god Eros modified to fit Jewish religious thinking.
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Why is it important?
The Song of Songs is Hellenistic Jewish erotica and as such it draws heavily on Greek thought. This is just one example of many where the Song has borrowed Greek ideas and reworked them for a Jewish audience,
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This page is a summary of: Greek Eros in Song of Songs 8:6–7, June 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004544840_011.
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