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Song of Songs For other uses of the abbreviation, see Song 1 .1Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated as Song 1 ) is the first chapter of a book called "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible . This book is one of the Five Megillot , a collection of short books, together with Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible.2 Jewish tradition views Solomon as the author of this book (although this is now largely disputed), and this attribution influences the acceptance of this book as a canonical text. This chapter contains the superscription, songs of the main female characters and the opening song of the male character.3
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Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated as Song 1 ) is the first chapter of a book called "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible . This book is one of the Five Megillot , a collection of short books, together with Book of Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish tradition views Solomon as the author of this book, and this attribution influences the acceptance of this book as a canonical text, although this is now largely disputed. This chapter contains the superscription, songs of the main female characters and the opening song of the male character.
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First chapter of the Song of Songs Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated as Song 1 ) is the first chapter of the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" , a book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament of the Christian Bible .This book is one of the Five Megillot , a group of short books, together with Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the third and the final section of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish tradition views Solomon as the author of this book (although this is now largely disputed), and this attribution influences the acceptance of this book as a canonical text. Song of Songs 1 contains the book's superscription, songs of the main female characters, and the opening song of the male character.
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first chapter of a book called "song of songs" or "song of solomon" in the hebrew bible or the old testament of
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first chapter of the "song of songs" or "song of solomon"
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