Song of Songs: An Overview
May 6, 2020 Speaker: Jeremiah Bradford Series: Five Festal Garments
Topic: Bible Overview
a. Their Story Begins: Opening words of mutual love and desire (1:2-2:7)
b. Invitation to Enjoy a Spring Day: young man to young woman (2:8-17)
c. Night of Separation Preceding Wedding (3:1-5)
d. Wedding Day and Night (3:6-5:1)
c'. Night of Separation Following Wedding Night and speeches of admiration and longing (5:2-7:9)
b'. Invitation to Enjoy a Spring Day: young woman to young man (7:10-8:4)
a'. Their Story Complete: Closing words of mutual love and desire (8:5-14)
I've adapted this from S. Craig Glickman, Solomon's Song of Love (West Monroe, LA: Howard Publishing, 2004), 241. Also found in HCSB Study Bible.
The Wedding Day and Night (3:6-5:1)
a. approach of the young woman in wedding procession (3:6-11)
b. young man's lengthy speech of admiration (4:1-5)
c. his short speech of desire (4:6)
d. CENTER: his very short speech of admiration (4:7)
c'. his short speech of desire (4:8)
b'. his lengthy speech of admiration (4:9-11)
a'. union of the lovers (4:12-5:1)
From David A. Dorsey, Literary Structure of OT (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999), 200.
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