The Song of Songs, sometimes called or The Song of Solomon, is
one of the five scrolls read on various holidays throughout the
year. It is designated as the scroll we read for the holiday of
Pesach. The entire book is a series of love songs in poetic
form. This book is unique in the books of the Bible in that not
only does it not mention G-d, it also doesn't deal with
religious themes explicitly. While the book of Esther also fails
to mention G-d, the spirit of nationalism and the Jewish people
pervades that book in a way which is lacking here. Although this
book is unique in the Bible, it is common among literature of
the Ancient Near East. There is a long history of love poetry in
Egypt and Mesopotamia, and Israel was probably no exception. The
song has many of the common features of Hebrew poetry but does
seem to have been weaved together from many sources given its
different types of Hebrew. Despite how short the book is, much
has been written about it. Part of the reason for this is that
people feel comp