The Song of Songs is an anomaly in the Bible. It doesn’t talk about God, the Covenant, the commandments, Israel, sin, wisdom or any of the usual topics you would expect in the Bible. The book instead is an example of erotic love poetry that would be completely at home in a secular context. Yet, there it is in the Bible. Over the centuries the book has been taken as an allegory of the relationship between God and the believer, Israel, the Church. It is taken to demonstrate that God is not aloof, above it all, glorying on the heavenly throne. Instead God is passionately involved in creation, going out to those who are chosen and called into a divine dance of unconditional love.
