The Song of Songs: Human or Divine Eros? | Prof. Nina Sophie Heereman

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 2nd, 2024, at St. Albert's Priority.

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About the Speaker:

Dr. Heereman was born and raised in Germany. Originally trained to become a lawyer and after completing her bar exam, she experienced a deep encounter with the Lord which led her to consecrate her life to the study and teaching of the Word of God. She subsequently attended the ICPE school of Evangelization in India, Banglore, and studied theology in Frankfurt and Rome. She received an STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University, an SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the SSD from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and the Université de Fribourg. She has taught as a visiting professor at the Collège des Bernhardins in Paris, the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, the DSPT in Berkley, and is currently Associate Professor for Sacred Scripture at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. Her scholarly interests include a reintegration of Exegesis with Systematic and Spiritual Theology. She is the author of Behold King Solomon on the Day of His Wedding (Leuven: Peeters, 2021), and Athirst for the Spirit (Steubenville: Emmaus Press, 2023).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast. Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square. The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world. To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.5	to mystic institute.org. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better
0:28.5	than wine, better than the fragrance of your perfumes, your name is flowing perfume,
0:34.9	therefore the young women love you. Draw me after you. Let us run. The king has brought me to
0:40.2	his chambers. Let us exalt and rejoice in you. Let us celebrate your love. It is beyond wine. Rightly do
0:47.3	they love you. Yes, Lord, your love, which is the Holy Spirit poured out into our hearts, is your fragrance, is the outpouring of your name over our soul, is the wisdom that you bestow on us.
1:00.0	And so we ask you now this morning, Lord, be with us and pour out your Holy Spirit as we try to understand what a gift the Holy, the Song of Songs songs is by the Holy Spirit.
1:13.6	The Spirit, who is your kiss personified to our souls to the entire church,
1:17.6	and we ask you to enkindle this love for you that the Holy Spirit wants to inspire us.
1:24.6	Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
1:27.9	As a close to the beginning, it is now and the show of the world without him. Amen.
1:33.4	In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay, so I find myself in the odd
1:39.2	position of speaking about a book which technically does not belong to wisdom literature.
1:47.0	As Father Jordan so beautifully explained, both yesterday and this morning, right,
1:53.0	we have literary genre in the Bible, and he explained to us how we recognize the literary genre
1:58.0	of the wisdom literature, which is to make you wise and help you
2:01.6	observe creation and understand the God's ordering of the cosmos and of your life.
2:08.5	And if you look at the song of songs, except for maybe one verse which some people think has
2:13.6	something to do with wisdom literature because it says love is stronger than death or
2:17.4	love is as
2:18.3	strong as death. Maybe that's a wise sentence. But the rest of the song of songs is a completely
2:24.1	different literary genre, which I guess is not hard to guess, namely it's love poetry. It's ancient
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