Emphasis Preaching Journal
To believe is to do
Commentary
If this book were not in the canon of the Bible, one might wonder if it were any more than a collection of love songs. That, of course, is what it is. But it fits in the Bible and in the sequence of our Sunday lessons because these songs are attributed to Solomon, just as many of the Psalms are credited to David. This look into a piece of wisdom literature also introduces us to what Othmar Keel calls "the third bearer of religious knowledge in the ancient world." Priest and prophet tended to play a more dominant role.
