The Song of Songs: An Introduction and Commentary

by Iain M. Duguid

Overview

This Old Testament book, ?the best of songs?, has fascinated and perplexed interpreters for centuries. We hear the passionate melody of romantic love, and are confronted by erotic imagery but whose love is described? Is it a couple's love for each other, God's love for his people, or a poem that speaks to love in all its dimensions? Iain Duguid's commentary explains how the Song is designed to show us an idealized picture of married love, in the context of a fallen and broken world. It also convicts us of how far short of this perfection we fall, both as humans and as lovers, and drives us repeatedly into the arms of our true heavenly husband, Jesus Christ.The Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries have long been a trusted resource for Bible study. Written by some of the world's most distinguished evangelical scholars, these twenty-eight volumes offer clear, reliable and relevant explanations of every book in the Old Testament, aiming to get at the true meaning of the Bible and to make its message plain to readers today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830899142
Publisher:	IVP Academic
Publication date:	03/16/2015
Series:	Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries , #19
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Iain M. Duguid (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Grove City College and pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has also served as a missionary in Liberia, taught at Reformed Seminary and Westminster Seminary California, and planted churches in Fallbrook, California, and Oxford, England. Some of Duguid's other work includes books such as Living in the Gap Between Promise and Reality and Hero of Heroes, as well as commentaries on Ezekiel, Daniel, Ruth, Esther and more. He was a translator for the Holman Christian Standard Version of the Bible and is a contributor to the New Living Translation Study Bible, the HCSV Study Bible and the ESV Study Bible. He and his wife Barb have five children.

Iain M. Duguid is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, Pennsylvania. Previously he taught at Westminster Seminary California. He is the author of several commentaries on Old Testament books.

Table of Contents

General preface
Author's preface
Chief abbreviations
Bibliography
Introduction
1. Title, authorship and date
2. Interpretation
3. Canonicity
4. Themes and message
5. Structure and unity
Analysis
Translation
Commentary

Editorial Reviews

"As one who found the original Tyndale OT Commentaries extremely helpful, this reviewer can only express the desire that all volumes from the original series will be rewritten with the same clarity as the volume that has been reviewed here."

Ellis R. Brotzman

"Throughout The Song of Songs the reader is pushed to know, meditate upon, and apply biblical wisdom in regards to marriage. Duguid has written an excellent commentary that calls one to draw closer to God. This work is a welcome addition for students seeking to get an introductory view of the Song of Songs, and it will be an excellent addition to any pastor's library."

Brian Koning

"Throughout The Song of Songs the reader is pushed to know, meditate upon, and apply biblical wisdom in regards to marriage. Duguid has written an excellent commentary that calls one to draw closer to God. This work is a welcome addition for students seeking to get an introductory view of the Song of Songs, and it will be an excellent addition to any pastor's library."

--Brian Koning, Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 1

"As one who found the original Tyndale OT Commentaries extremely helpful, this reviewer can only express the desire that all volumes from the original series will be rewritten with the same clarity as the volume that has been reviewed here."

--Ellis R. Brotzman, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58, no. 3

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