Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Song of Songs" in English language version.
For example, most scholars think that the Song of Songs originated as a set of erotic poems of very high quality, which were only later treated as scriptural: this was achieved by regarding the lovers in the poems as representative, allegorically, of God and Israel (Jesus and the Church, in the Christian version of the allegory).
most scholars see it as a bit of erotic poetry to remind us that God invented sexual desire, and it is a good gift.
The view of most scholars today is that the Song of Songs should be taken at face value as erotic love poetry celebrating human love and sexuality, rather than as a divine allegory.
The reigning consensus among contemporary scholars is that the Song is a collection of poems about human love.
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