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Jonathan Kaplan

Why is a love poem full of sex in the Bible? Readers have been struggling with the Song of Songs for 2,000 years

February 14, 2023 by Jonathan Kaplan

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine,” but perhaps not all of the quotation’s admirers know that its origins lie in a biblical text: the Song of Songs.

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