What is the Song of Solomon?

I just read it again.It is clearly a narrative of an interaction between a man and a woman. It is also very clear that it is left open as to who they are!But Christians recognize it as propheic of Chrsit and his bride, the church, whether or not Solomon experienced these things in real life himself.If you choose to make an analogy of Song to the accounts of creation or the flood in Genesis then you must have an awful lot of trouble watching TV. "When is it real, when is it a story? I can't tell!" We can - easily, as can agnostic Bible scholars.[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 09-03-2002]

^ Solomon was probably describing a real event that was also prophetic. Just as the Pharaoh of Moses' killing all new borns was real and yet also prophetic of (i) Herod going after new borns at the time of Christ's birth and (ii) Satan going after the 'manchild' born of the woman (= church) in Rev 12/13.Creation and the flood on he other hand are:On the first day I created X, on the second day I created Y etc and then in other parts of Scipture it states that 'God made the heavens and the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th'. Same with the flood. Details of days, years, cubits, gopher wood, pitch, animals, food, 8 saved, retreat of waters below highest mountains etc.Genesis is simply not comparable to the generic poetic imagery of Song or Revelation.[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 09-03-2002]