Excerpt from The Song of Songs: Being a Collection of Love Lyrics of Ancient Palestine, A New Translation, Based on a Revised Text, Together With the Origin, Growth, and Interpretation of the SongsThe association of Solomon with the Song of Songs, as though he were a participant in the situa tion unfolded in the book, rests upon the incidental mention of Solomon in the last chapter (8, 11-12) and upon the identification of the king, mentioned a number of times in the book (1, 4 and 12) with Solomon as the king par excellence. This identifi cation led to adding the name Solomon after king in two other places (3, 9 and But as will be shown, king is the designation still given in parts of modern Syria to the bride-groom as the central figure in the wedding festivities. The real Solomon plays no part whatsoever in the book.Once, however, the name of Solomon having become attached to the book by a fanciful association.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.