Two Worlds of the Song of Songs  

作　　者：钟燕[1,2] 

机构地区：[1]中国农业大学外语系,北京100083 [2]北京大学外国语学院世界文学所,北京100871

出　　处：《兰州大学学报（社会科学版）》2010年第F00期122-125,共4页Journal of Lanzhou University（Social Sciences）

摘　　要：The Song of Songs has been the subject of much speculation and controversy since rabbinic times.Some view it as a collection of erotic love poetry,while many other interpreters perceive it as spiritual allegory.This paper analyzes the Song from two dimensions:an anthology of love poems in the literary world and a canonized scripture in the historical world,attempting to explore its growing path from a secular collection of poems to the sacred Song in the Holy Bible.The Song of Songs has been the subject of much speculation and controversy since rabbinic times. Some view it as a collection of erotic love poetry, while many other interpreters perceive it as spiritual allegory. This paper analyzes the Song from two dimensions： an anthology of love poems in the literary world and a canonized scripture in the historical world, attempting to explore its growing path from a secular collection of poems to the sacred Song in the Holy Bible.

关 键 词：The Song of Songs love poems canonized scripture INTERPRETATION 

分 类 号：I052[文学—文学理论]