Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture

Christian exegesis of the Song of Songs has long interacted creatively with - and, more recently, reacted critically against - the allegorical interpretation developed by Origen of Alexandria (c.185-c.254) in his Commentary and two Homilies on the Song of Songs. Interest in Origen''s exegesis of the Song''s narrative elements has dominated past scholarship, which has almost entirely ignored how Or...