This book is read on the Shabbat of the intermediary days of Passover.
The narrator of this book proposes a dangerous descent from the "crest of Amana," from the "lions' dens to the mountains of leopards." The popular artistic subject of the hortus conclusus, or the enclosed garden, takes its name from the Vulgate translation of this book, which is the source of the phrase "ivory tower." A sixteenth-century song sung to usher in the Shabbat, known as Lekha Dodi, takes its first two words and many of its themes from this book. This book is read on the Shabbat of the intermediary days of Passover. In this book, the (*) "daughters of Jerusalem" are repeatedly warned: "do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires," by a woman who prowls the streets of a city at nighttime in search of her lover. The term "Shulamite" denotes the woman in this book, who declares that "your love is more delightful than wine." For 10 points, name this unabashedly erotic Old Testament book allegorizing God and Israel as two lovers.
The narrator of this book proposes a dangerous descent from the "crest of Amana," from the "lions' dens to the mountains of leopards."
Song of Songs [or Song of Solomon; or Canticle of Canticles]