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"Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from the hills of Gilead.
...
Your neck is like the tower of David,
built with courses of stone" - Song of Songs

Illustration for a small printed edition I hope to finish for myself. 🙂

The Song of Songs is one of the scrolls found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or "Writings"). It is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it shows no interest in Law or Covenant or the God of Israel...; it celebrates sexual love, giving "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other. The two are in harmony, each desiring the other...; the women of Jerusalem form a chorus to the lovers, functioning as an audience whose participation in the lovers' erotic encounters facilitates the participation of the reader.

The introduction calls the poem "the song of songs", a construction commonly used in Scriptural Hebrew to show something as the greatest and most beautiful of its class.
A dialogue between the lovers follows: the woman asks the man to meet; he replies with a lightly teasing tone.

 

Song of songs verse

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