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Review title: Excellent starter on the Song of Songs.
Product review: The introduction alone is worth the price of the book. On the interpretation he discusses: allegory, typology, drama, and natural. Mercifully, he adopts the natural interpretation; it is ANE love poetry. The commentary itself is semi-technical with a lot of word studies. The Hebrew and Greek are transliterated. Footnotes are used (rather than endnotes), and these are helpful. Because he refers to the way Hebrew words are used in other parts of the OT, the book is also quite educational, I found a sense of beauty about the book, that was uplifting. He also refers to the LXX which was useful. The intro goes to p72 and at 192 pages the book is long enough to be useful. The new larger format of the Tyndale OT commentaries is superb. First published in 1984 it might be a little dated, but for its price it is a bargain. I will see pomegranates in a new light now.
