song of solomon

     

The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Ol Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and anglicized Vulgate title Canticum Canticorum, "Song of Songs" in Latin. It is known as Aisma in the Septuagint, which is short for ῏Αισμα ᾀσμάτων, Aisma aismatôn, "Song of Songs" in Greek.

Trivia about song of solomon

  • "I am the rose of Sharon" & "When you know your name, you should hang on to it" are from 2 different books titled this
  • "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples" is found in this O.T. "song" book
  • This book of the Old Testament is basically a collection of love poems
  • Macon "Milkman" Dead is on a quest for his identity in this novel by Toni Morrison
  • "S.O.S."by Toni Morrison
  • "Love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave" is from this biblical "song" book
  • In this Bibilically named Morrison novel, Macon Dead is called Milkman because he was nursed into childhood
  • This Toni Morrison novel ends, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it"