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Why is the Song of Solomon embraced by both Jewish and Christian Canon?

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Its preservation in the Jewish and Christian canon is due not to its universally admitted poetic beauty, but to the acceptance of it as an allegory or parable of God's love for Israel, or for the church, or for the soul that loves Him.

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