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* CountryMouse: The Shulamite is depicted as this.
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* FarmersDaughter: The Shulamite is depicted as this, growing up in an agriculture-based family.
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* CountryMouse: The Shulamite is depicted as this.
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* MistakenForProstitute: The Shulamite in the first chapter worries that her Beloved is going to mistake her for "one who veils herself", which in that time period is usually the sign of a prostitute.
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* BigEntrance: King Solomon makes one in Song 3:6-11.
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* BigEntrance: King Solomon makes one in Song 3:6-11.3:6-11, carried on a litter with sixty men surrounding him, armed with swords, and with incense wafting in the air.
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* ArcWords: "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, do not stir up or awaken love until it pleases."
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* ArcWords: "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, do not stir up or awaken love until it pleases."
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* ShesGotLegs: The Beloved in Song 7:1 compares the curves of the Shulamite's thighs to being like jewels shaped by a master craftsman.
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* JesusTaboo: In some translations, God's name is never mentioned; in others: Song 8:6 mentions the flame of love being like "a flame of the Lord."
* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor two suitors]] vying for her attention.
* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor two suitors]] vying for her attention.
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* JesusTaboo: In some translations, God's name is never mentioned; in others: Song 8:6 mentions the flame of love being like "a flame of the Lord."
* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor two suitors]] vying for her attention.
* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor two suitors]] vying for her attention.
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* BigEntrance: King Solomon makes one in Song 3:6-11.
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* AmazonChaser: While the Shulamite isn't an ActionGirl, she gives the impression of one to her Beloved in Song 6:4-5.
-->''You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,''
-->''comely as Jerusalem,''
-->''awesome as an army with banners!''
-->''Turn your eyes away from me,''
-->''for they overwhelm me!''
-->''You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love,''
-->''comely as Jerusalem,''
-->''awesome as an army with banners!''
-->''Turn your eyes away from me,''
-->''for they overwhelm me!''
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: The Beloved in Song 8:13:
-->''O you who dwell in the gardens,''
-->''my companions listen for your voice;''
-->''let me hear it!''
-->''O you who dwell in the gardens,''
-->''my companions listen for your voice;''
-->''let me hear it!''
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* RoyalHarem: In Song 6:8, the Beloved says there are "sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number."
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* RoyalHarem: In Song 6:8, the Beloved says there are "sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.""
* SmellsSexy: In Song 4:16:
-->''Awake, O north wind,''
-->''and come, O south wind!''
-->''Blow upon my garden,''
-->''that its spices may flow out.''
-->''Let my beloved come to his garden,''
-->''and eat its choicest fruits.''
* SmellsSexy: In Song 4:16:
-->''Awake, O north wind,''
-->''and come, O south wind!''
-->''Blow upon my garden,''
-->''that its spices may flow out.''
-->''Let my beloved come to his garden,''
-->''and eat its choicest fruits.''
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Shulamite's brothers chime in at Song 8:8-9 about what they would do when their sister who has no breasts is spoken for in marriage: "If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar."
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Also known as the Song of Solomon. It is a book of the Old Testament that is a series of love poems written about the Shulamite and her Beloved (most commonly credited as King Solomon). Bible students tend to view this as a metaphor of God's love for Israel (for the Jews) or Jesus Christ's love for the church (for Christians).
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Also known as the Song of Solomon. It is a book of the Old Testament that is a series of love poems written about the Shulamite and her Beloved (most commonly credited as King Solomon). Bible students tend to view this as a metaphor of God's love for Israel (for the Jews) or Jesus Christ's love for the church (for Christians).
Christians). Because of its language, it is usually not read to children until they are in their early teens.
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* EroticDream: Chapter five seems to suggest that the Shulamite is having one about her Beloved paying her a visit at night. [[OrWasItADream Or maybe it wasn't a dream/]]
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* EroticDream: Chapter five seems to suggest that the Shulamite is having one about her Beloved paying her a visit at night. [[OrWasItADream Or maybe it wasn't a dream/]]dream.]]
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* EroticDream: Chapter five seems to suggest that the Shulamite is having one about her Beloved paying her a visit at night.
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* EroticDream: Chapter five seems to suggest that the Shulamite is having one about her Beloved paying her a visit at night. [[OrWasItADream Or maybe it wasn't a dream/]]
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* EroticDream: Chapter five seems to suggest that the Shulamite is having one about her Beloved paying her a visit at night.
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* ArcWords: "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, do not stir up or awaken love until it pleases."
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For the Toni Morrison book, see ''Literature/SongOfSolomon''.
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For the Toni Morrison Creator/ToniMorrison book, see ''Literature/SongOfSolomon''.
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* PropertyOfLove: The Shulamite first says, "My beloved is mine, and I am his." Later on she says, "I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me."
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* JesusTaboo: In some translations, God's name is never mentioned; in others: Song 8:6 mentions the flame of love being like "a flame of the Lord."
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** "I sat down in his shadow [i.e., sat down while he was standing up] …and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
** "My beloved put his hand by the hole [of the door] and my bowels were moved for him." That has to actually mean more than it lets on.
** "My beloved put his hand by the hole [of the door] and my bowels were moved for him." That has to actually mean more than it lets on.
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* PluckyGirl: The Shulamite, who would risk being beaten by "the watchmen of the walls" in order to go after her Beloved when he pays her a visit at night.
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* PluckyGirl: The Shulamite, who would risk being beaten by "the watchmen of the walls" in order to go after her Beloved when he pays her a visit at night. [[OrWasItADream Or maybe she was just dreaming he was there.]]
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* PluckyGirl: The Shulamite, who would risk being beaten by "the watchmen of the walls" in order to go after her Beloved when he pays her a visit at night.
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* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with two suitors vying for her attention.
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* LoveTriangle: An alternate interpretation is that the Shulamite's Beloved ''isn't'' actually Solomon, but a shepherd, and the whole story plays out as the Shulamite dealing with [[RichSuitorPoorSuitor two suitors suitors]] vying for her attention.
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* OneTrueLove: The Shulamite and the Beloved, to each other.
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Also known as the Song of Solomon. It is a book of the Old Testament that is a series of love poems written about the Shulamite and her Beloved (most commonly credited as King Solomon).
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Also known as the Song of Solomon. It is a book of the Old Testament that is a series of love poems written about the Shulamite and her Beloved (most commonly credited as King Solomon).
Solomon). Bible students tend to view this as a metaphor of God's love for Israel (for the Jews) or Jesus Christ's love for the church (for Christians).
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* GetTheeToANunnery: Chapter seven describes the Shulamite's navel as "a rounded cup, never lacking in sweet wine." Some scholars argue that "navel" may in fact refer to the vagina.
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-->''with which his mother crowned him
-->''on the day of his wedding,
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Zion,''
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Also known as the Song of Solomon. It is a book of the Old Testament that is a series of love poems written about the Shulamite and her Beloved (most commonly credited as King Solomon).
For the Toni Morrison book, see ''Literature/SongOfSolomon''.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Or at least an allusion to one in Song 3:11:
-->''Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
-->''and see King Solomon with the crown
-->''with which his mother crowned him
-->''on the day of his wedding,
-->''on the day of the gladness of his heart.''
* DescriptionPorn: Done a few times, with at least two of them about the Shulamite and one about her Beloved.
* DontLookAtMe: In Song 1:6:
-->''Do not gaze at me, because I am dark,
-->''because the sun has looked upon me.''
* RoyalHarem: In Song 6:8, the Beloved says there are "sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number."
For the Toni Morrison book, see ''Literature/SongOfSolomon''.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Or at least an allusion to one in Song 3:11:
-->''Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
-->''and see King Solomon with the crown
-->''with which his mother crowned him
-->''on the day of his wedding,
-->''on the day of the gladness of his heart.''
* DescriptionPorn: Done a few times, with at least two of them about the Shulamite and one about her Beloved.
* DontLookAtMe: In Song 1:6:
-->''Do not gaze at me, because I am dark,
-->''because the sun has looked upon me.''
* RoyalHarem: In Song 6:8, the Beloved says there are "sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number."
