God has chose the love of a man and a woman as an image of his own love of his people.

The Song's powerful affirmation of love, loyalty and commitment, beauty and sexuality, is uniquely relevant for our day, pointing to the love and character of God behind human love.

In unrivalled poetic language, the Song of Songs explores the whole range of emotions experienced by its two lovers as they work out their commitment to each other, consummated in marriage. The Song's powerful and unabashed affirmation of love, loyalty and earthy sexuality is urgently relevant today, when commercialised eroticism is in, and permanency in relationships is out.

Tom Gledhill argues that beauty, intimacy and sexual consummation are to be celebrated, but not as ends in themselves. Rather, the point to another world, another dimension, only occasionally and dimly perceived.