Blessing of Blessings: Gregory of Narek's Commentary on the Song of Songs

Gregory of Narek (c. 945—1003), a monk and a priest, is best know for his poetic works, and one of the few armenian commentators on the Song of Songs, which was so great a focus among western monastic writers of the patristic and medieval periods. Living during a period of cultural and religious renaissance which preceded the Turkish and Mongol invasions of Armenia, and in a period of conflict between the non—Chalcedonian Christians of his native land and their Byzantine neighbors, Grigor w...