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Definition of Song of songs

1. Noun. An Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later.

Definition of Song of songs

1. Proper noun. (biblical) An alternative name for the Song of Solomon, a book of the Bible in the Old Testament; also known as Canticles and the Canticle of Canticles. ¹

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Literary usage of Song of songs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Poet Lore (1907)
"THE IDYL OF ISRAEL KNOWN AS THE SONG OF SOLOMON OR song of songs BY RUBY ARCHER IN the ... To this age of splendid tribal unity belongs the Song of Songs, ..."

2. The Bookman (1910)
"The most recently translated novel of Hermann Sudermann, The Song of Songs, is a striking ex- "The Song ample of a very remark- of Songs" able work sadly ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... and Song of Songs; so that they agreed with the books of Solomon not only in number, but also in the kind of matter." Prior to 1896, only a few sayings ..."

4. A History of the Literature of Ancient Israel from the Earliest Times to 135 by Henry Thatcher Fowler (1912)
"... THE GREEK AGE Song of Songs and Psalms to 168 BC) IN strongest contrast to the didactic gnomes and songs of the sages, who flourished in the Greek age ..."

5. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1891)
"rI ""HE Song of Songs " means the supreme song, the very _L best song of the ... This is, therefore, not only a song, it is the song of songs, the music of ..."

6. The Methodist Review (1895)
"VIII—THE song of songs—A STUDY OF ITS PLAN AND PURPORT. OUB purpose is to set forth the structure of this most remarkable composition as we may trace it in ..."

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