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The Song of Songs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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Making a very valuable and attractive addition to the rapidly growing series called La Sainte Bible the Canticle of Canticles has now appeared, translated and introduced and provided with brief notes by Père A. Robert, Professor of the Institut Catholique of Paris. It makes also a suitably delightful little book for the reading of such lovely poetry; and it is a pleasant and skilful translation. But with all its magic beauty everyone knows how difficult a book this is to interpret—'without parallel in the history of biblical exegesis’ is how the difficulty of it appears to Père Robert. Yet after reviewing some of the principal theories of interpretation he chooses and yops his own with a masterful assurance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 Le Cantique des Cantiques. (Les Editions du Cerf, Paris; n.p.)

2 A useful introduction to this is subject is to be found in The Song of Songs, a Symposium (Philadelphia; 1924) in the contribution by J. J. Meek.