Digging into the Song of Songs
Song of Songs hey! Um... juicy!... A little background. Digging into the Song of Songs is something I've been messing around with , it's not a translation as such though may appear so. The idea was simply to dig into the meaning of the Song of Songs a little more via the Hebrew to see what I could find. I'll post something on how I've done this latter - it's actually very simple but not a short explanation - but very simply Hebrew has 3 letter root words from which not just all words literally spring out from but inherit their root meaning. In practice Hebrew is very verb orientated but the same root word would have the expression of what we'd call verbs (action) , nouns (naming) and adjective (descriptive). It's then a case of swapping around the verbal and noun meanings for an adjective. We'd say that would give anything any different meaning but it doesn't in Hebrew which is best described as unique, certainly in this respect. The...