Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now, we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Song of Solomon.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt.

This is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, and I have a question for you.

What to do with Song of Songs?

Or Song of Solomon, as it's sometimes called.

That's the book we're looking at today.

This is an oddball.

Well, at least at first glance, it's an oddball, because it just looks like it's a collection of poetry about romance and deep,

passionate love, including physical attraction and physical intimacy.

But when you look closer at it, you discover that you were right.

It is exactly all of those things.

So why would that be in the Bible, which is a story about God's redemptive plan?

And I'm content to just let that tension, that question, hang out there until we've had a chance to look at the raw material of what we can say for sure is definitely going on on the pages of this book.

Which again, sometimes it's called Song of Solomon.

Sometimes it's called Song of Songs.

The reason it's called Song of Solomon is the opening line, which is the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

And of course, understandably the most natural assumption when you look at that.

And indeed, this has been my assumption, my whole life until my last few readings of this book is that Solomon must have written this.

And we're about to probably get some kind of love poetry or love song that is written from Solomon's perspective, that is expressive of him falling in love and meeting somebody.

And as you read through it for the first time, you're like, well, yeah, that's what it looks like it is.

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