The Root of the Thing: A Study of Job and the Song of Songs

Almighty assertion association Bath-rabbim beasts Behold beloved Bible Bildad Book of Job bride bring comes cometh creation darkness daughters of Jerusalem declare delight divine dominant double-entendre dramatic dwell dynamic earth echo Elihu Eliphaz emotional En-gedi erotic evoked eyes fear fertility friends garden God's gold hath hathath Hebrew Heshbon identification identity imagined scene implied integrity Job's Job's speech king King James Version King Solomon Lebanon Let him kiss light literally Lord lover marriage metaphor motif mountains myrrh once parallelism Paul Claudel person phrase praise prophets prose Psalms repeated repetition response rhetorical question ritual root scripture sense sequence shalt Shulamite silence Solomon Song of Songs soul speak speaker spices spirit spouse statement stones strong as death suffering thee Theodore Gaster thereof thine thing tion transcends tsalmaveth unto utterance verb verse vineyard voice wicked wine wisdom womb word Zophar