The Song of Songs : a Continental commentary : Keel, Othmar, 1937- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ix, 308 pages : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-299) and index

Introduction -- Origins and allegorizing of the Song of songs -- Sitz im leben, composition, literary forms, and language -- 1:1 Title -- 1:2-4 Longing for the greatest pleasure -- 1:5-6 Different from the others -- 1:7-8 If you want to find him -- 1:9-11 The charms of the beloved -- 1:12 The fragrance of nard -- 1:13-14 What he means to me -- 1:15-17 "Under the linden" -- 2:1-3 "Love's sweet breath, --a new-born life" -- 2:4-5 Sick with love -- 2:6-7 Do not stir up love! -- 2:8-9 "Nothing restrains love" -- 2:10-13 The time has come -- 2:14 The dove in the clefts of the rock -- 2:15 The free running admirers -- 2:16-17 "You are mine, I am yours" -- 3:1-5 Yearnings in the night -- 3:6-8 Tremendum et fascinosum I -- 3:9-10d A magnificient palanquin -- 3:10e-11 A day of gladness of heart -- 4:1-7 All beauty and delight reside in you (descriptive song I) -- 4:8 Descend from the peaks -- 4:9-11 You drive me crazy! -- 4:12--5:1 The paradise of love -- 5:2-8 A missed opportunity -- 5:9-16 Distinguished among ten thousand (descriptive song II) -- 6:1-3 Confidence -- 6:4-7 Tremendum et fascinosum II -- 6:8-10 Like a goddess -- 6:11 Patient/impatient checking -- 6:12-13 (7:1) Shulammite is too good for that! -- 7:1-5 (2-6) The prince's daughter (descriptive song III) -- 7:6-9 (7-10) The tree of life -- 7:10 (11) Lifting the curse -- 7:11-12 (12-13) How pleasant to go to the fields -- 7:13 (14)--8:2 If you were only my brother -- 8:3-4 Do not stir up love! II -- 8:5ab Who has become so complaisant? -- 8:5c-e From generation to generation -- 8:6-7 Love as the opponent of death -- 8:8-10 Futile pride -- 8:11-12 Solomon's vineyard and mine -- 8:13-14 A secret understanding