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- From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
- To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Song of Songs 1000/200
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:59:26 -0500
Dear Christine,
>What is this passage referencing? Checking commentaries I see widely
>varying interpretations---from a covert allusion to the polygamy of the king
>to a reference to vineyards rented out to the number of vines etc.
>What is the "vineyard"? Who are the caretakers? What do the numbers 1000
>and 200 refer to---pieces of silver? women?
HH: Solomon's vineyard is probably a real vineyard in Baal Hamon. That is
the most natural reading of the words. The tenants were real tenants. They
brought a payment to Solomon of a thousand pieces of silver for the
privilege of taking the fruit that they took.
HH: Solomon's love compares herself to Solomon's vineyard. She too has a
vineyard, which may be figurative for her life. The income to be expected
from the vineyard she dedicates to Solomon; she gives herself to Solomon as
it were. But there were those who tended the vineyard, who may be a
figurative representation of her brothers. They deserved their wages for
the work that they did in caring for her vineyard, that is, for developing
her life (vv. 8-9, cf. 1:6), leading to the result in verse 10.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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Song of Songs 1000/200,
Christine Bass, 05/23/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Song of Songs 1000/200, Harold R. Holmyard III, 05/23/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, myron kauk, 05/24/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, Christine Bass, 05/24/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, Harold R. Holmyard III, 05/24/2001
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Re: Song of Songs 1000/200,
Christine Bass, 05/25/2001
- Song of Songs 1000/200, Harold R. Holmyard III, 05/25/2001
- RE: Song of Songs 1000/200, Peter Kirk, 05/25/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, Samuel Payne, 05/26/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, Harold R. Holmyard III, 05/26/2001
- Re: Song of Songs 1000/200, Dave Washburn, 05/26/2001
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