Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <Peter_R_Kirk AT hotmail.com>]

Thank you.

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben and Jo Crick [mailto:ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk]
> Sent: 24 November 2002 09:56
> To: peter_r_kirk AT hotmail.com; b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] FW: Song of songs commentaries
> 
> On Sat 23 Nov 2002 (13:42:42 +1100), peter_r_kirk AT hotmail.com wrote:
> > What good commentaries are there on the Song of songs? What are your
> > favorites? I would be very interested in a small description of
them,
> > especially on the following questions:
> > 1) Bibliographical data (name, author, publication year)
> > 2) What is the approach of the commentary (literal, allegory,
typology,
> > other (what))?
> > 3) What is the basic theological outlook, if clearly present
(Jewish,
> > Catholic, Protestant; conservative, liberal; etc)?
> > 4) What is the basic approach to the book (two lovers, triangle)?
> 
> 
>  My two favourites are:
> 
>  1.  Dr J Hudson Taylor MRCS, /Union and Communion/, Article in
/China's
>  Millions/, journal of the China Inland Mission, London, 1914.
Reprinted
> many
>  times by The Religious Tract Society. Paperback, 84pp.
> 
>  2.  Unashamedly allegorical.
> 
>  3.  Protestant, conservative.
> 
>  4.  Two lovers, Christ and his Bride, the Church.
> 
>  Dr J Hudson Taylor was the founder of the China Inland Mission (now
known
> as
>  Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
> ____________________________________________________
> 
>  1.  Prof George Burrowes DD, /The Song of Solomon/, Philadelphia PA,
1853.
>  Reprinted by The Banner of Truth Trust, London, 1958. Hardback,
453pp.
> 
>  2.  Allegorical and devotional.
> 
>  3.  Presbyterian, conservative.
> 
>  4.  Spouse and Beloved (Church and Jesus)
> 
>  The Revd Professor George Burrowes DD was the first Professor of
Hebrew
> and
>  Greek at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, San Francisco, from
1872
> until
>  his death.
> _____________________________________________________
> 
>  HTH
> 
>  Ben
> --
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