The recent papal encyclical Deus Caritas Est contains an explication of this text in its sixth section.
The recent papal encyclical Deus Caritas Est contains an explication of this text in its sixth section. This work's first section includes a comparison with a "cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi," while in the fifth section, the speaker claims to have "gathered my myrrh with my spice… eaten my honeycomb with my honey." The seventh section compares the addressee's nose with "the tower of Lebanon which looks towards Damascus," and in several sections, the daughters of Jerusalem are enjoined to not "stir up, nor awake" the speaker's love. With its second section beginning, "I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys," for ten points, identify this sexy Old Testament text which belongs to the Ketuvim and which together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther makes up the Megillot.
The recent papal encyclical Deus Caritas Est contains an explication of this text in its sixth section.
{Song of Solomon} or {Song of Songs} or {Canticle of Canticles} or {Shor Ha’sharom} (I think this is right, my Hebrew is not so good)