Egalitarian Love in the Song of Songs

The Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes—full of poetry and enigmatic imagery, these are among the most challenging books of the Bible to understand. Well take heart, because we have some help coming your way!

Tune in as we speak with Rabbi Benjamin Segal about his Gefen publications on the Ketuvim. We’ll talk with Rabbi Segal about his translations and commentaries on:

Kohelet’s Pursuit of Truth: A New Reading of Ecclesiastes, and The Song of Songs: A Woman in Love, and finally also Lamentations: Doorways to Darkness.

Rabbi Benjamin Segal is former president of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, has authored many commentaries, other books and articles.

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