世俗情爱的神圣化——浅议旧约中的《雅歌》

<雅歌>是<圣经>中惟一以赞颂情爱为主题的诗集.它之所以具有被列入正典的地位,在于最初希伯来人的<旧约>神学观点中并无"灵"与"肉"分离的思想,尤其是完全没有"灵洁"、"肉秽"的观念.以后又经过后人不断地诠释和引申,使其原本意义单纯的以人间男女情爱为主题的内容被看作是上帝爱以色列人的比喻,或者在基督信仰中被视为是基督爱教会的比喻,从而在寓意和象征上实现了文学向宗教的转化,并取得了牢固的神圣性.

Sanctification of Mundane Affections--An Analysis of Song of Songs

Song of Songs in the Old Testament is the only poetic anthology that takes love as its theme. In its original sense, as is reflected in the Old Testament, the Hebrews did not have separate soul from flesh and in particular, they did not have the notions of foul flesh or pure spirit. In late times, the theme of love in the Song of Songs was interpreted as the love of God to the Israeli and the love of Jesus Christ to the Christian church. Thus, the mundane love in the Song of Songs is sanctified as the moral and symbolic religious love.