I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s ...

Minstrel playing before King Solomon, illumination for the opening verse of Song of Songs, the Rothschild Mahzor Manuscript, 1492. Source: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America King Solomon ...

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. The night before I married his eldest son, my father-in-law read aloud from the Song of Solomon before a crowd of our closest friends and family, ...

When Denise and Roger Friesen planned a Valentine's Day dinner for their Omaha church, they immediately knew their theme: the Song of Solomon, sometimes called the Song of Songs, the most romantic ...

The imagery of “red” and “honey” returns in Song of Songs attributed to King Solomon: “Your red lips, my bride, drip sweet golden-orange honey from the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue.

“The Song of Songs,” or “The Song of Solomon,” as it is called by the King James and other English Bibles, is associated with Passover because it is a love poem set in the Palestinian ...