Song of Songs of Solomon
from the Forward:
Long noticed similarities of the Song of Songs with other Ancient Middle Eastern love poetry from Sumeria through Egypt, and beyond
into Persia, continues today into modern Tamil literature. A recent exhibition
of 13th century Persian and related manuscripts from the State
Library of Victoria and the Bodleian Library in Oxford spurred me to render the
similar but much more ancient Song of Songs into a rhyming poetic form. And as
had Bernard, I first studied Ecclesiastes – rendering it into Buddhist thought
through rhyming verse that was published as ‘Pranja Anthology’. Consideration
of the book of Proverbs concentrating on versus related to wisdom as in the
background of the cover of this book then led to this poetic interpretation of
the Song of Songs.
