Global History Of Sexuality Sourcebook Vol 1 – Mathew Kuefler

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than any spice! Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like that of Lebanon. You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain.

Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices. You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. Questions for Reflection and Discussion How is the erotic bond described in this poem? What effect do the many references to plants and animals have on the poem?

What might it mean for ideas about sex to represent one’s God as a groom and humanity collectively or individually as a bride? What might it mean for ideas about marriage? Related Sources Some scholars have suggested that the Song of Songs is the text of an ancient Israelite sacred prostitution ritual; see source 82 on this practice.

Compare other premodern erotic poetry from sources 23, 40, and 80; the last of these describes devotion between the Hindu god Krishna and a female devotee as an erotic bond. For another Christian comparison of the bond between husband and wife as like that of Christ and the Church, see source 61. The Hermit and the Love-Thief (ed. Barbara Stoler Miller, 1978) offers translations of two lengthy erotic poems from Hindu tradition, one by Bhartrihari in the fifth century and the other by Bilhana in the eleventh.

Source: The Holy Bible: New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Bible, 1978), 726–30 (Song of Songs 1:2–4a, 13–16, 2:2–3, 6, 9–13, 4:1–7, 9–15, 5:10–16).

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