An acclaimed translation of the Bible's celebrated collection of love poetry.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
a beautiful book:
A beautiful re-translation. Close your Bible, pick up this book, and read it with someone you love.
Gorgeous and sensual:
Go into any version of the Christian Bible and find a tepid, shrivelled, boring and severely edited translation. Is the 'Song of Songs' a little too explicit for religions where women are dismissed as evil temptresses? Hm, I wonder. Look at the 'Tanakh', and we are closer to the truth. But read Marcia Falk and feel the original Hebrew's luscious bloom of sexual longing and fulfillment. Dangerous stuff, this, if one is socially conservative or easily shocked. Never pornographic, it is the unmistakeable... more info
Thank God it's back!:
For years I have been wanting to find this book again, after my own copy from the original printing was lost in a move. I was even tempted to steal a copy from the library, but since it is a scripture from the Bible, that seemed unwise. Marcia Falk's translation of this Song of Songs is uniquely beautiful, and I am overjoyed that it has returned to print!
Wonderful Translation!:
How lucky we are to have Marcia Falk's wonderful translation of the Song of Songs back in print. This is undoubtedly the best---and the most literary---English translation available. The Song of Songs, the only book of love poetry in the Bible, is remarkable for its poetic beauty and for its nonsexist presentation of sexual love. Marcia Falk does a marvelous job of rendering the ancient Hebrew text into lyrical and evocative English poems. Falk's inspired translation is based on her groundbreaking... more info
