Instead, the earlier commentators “reread” the Song of Songs exclusively as a portrayal of divine-to-human love, God’s relationship with a beloved individual or community.

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This poem seems to point to her relationship with the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, a married Presbyterian minister with whom she corresponded and whom she met only a few times.

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"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent.