OT Notes song of solomon 2:8-13

1) What a nice time for this to reappear, after lots of summer weddings. 2) I still am taken with Phyllis Trible in God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality on the love poem, but one can find much excellent material on this. 3) One could go the old route of reading it as spiritual allegory. See for instance the set of 86 or so sermons by Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) I love the mutuality in this section of the letter, for that matter throughout the letter. 5) If there is even a hint of seeing sexuality as dirty in this poem, I cannot find it. 6) For a long time, I have held that these are young lovers,, with all of that leaping. Then the loving description of body parts would not be written by the late middle-aged or elderly. unless one has a thing for sagging flesh. 7) In our section we are treated to sight and sound as well as fragrance. this could be a great entryway into our senses and maybe the addition of a spiritual sense or a sixth sense. 8) One could be led into a poetic disquisition on the erotic and why the church is so poor in dealing with it. 9) should every church service feel like a wedding, at least in part? On Assumption Day recently, a local Catholic church had a long service as a novice became a bride of Christ, as in the sound of Music scene.