III. The Song of Songs is an Utterance of Utterances

The Song as an ‘Event of Events ’ will be explored within the context of the Song’s variegated but quite cleanly polarized history of interpretation; the Song as representative of a ‘Genre of Genres ’ will treated in light of the components and attributes of its Hebrew Text and structure; and the Song as an ‘Utterance of Utterances ’ will be pursued in relation to the Song’s relevance and resonance within other parts of Hebrew Scripture. I One of the most frustrating realities of the Song’s two thousand year interpretive history is an inability to penetrate its presentation to the degree that its place alongside other Scriptural testimonies is beheld clearly; and its coherent and structured meaning apprehended. In generalized terms, the two most common conclusions in regard to the Song’s semantic import and canonized existence are as follows. At one end of its interpretive continuum lies the theological premise that the Song devoid of its detai