Song of Songs by Tamar Messer

The Song of Solomon contains 20 illustrations, printed in full color on artistic paper in Hebrew and English. Printed version of original
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Artist’s Notes: “The Song of Songs has been interpreted in numerous ways.The traditional commentary sees the text as a parable for God’s love for the Jewish people. Others treat it literally as a description of the love between a man and woman. I chose to emphasize the Jewish people’s connection to its land and to expand on the descriptions of the panoramas ,the natural resources, and the seasons; and to focus on the flora and fauna of the Land of Israel. In this frame of mind, I began working on the illustrations.”
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The Song of Songs book is included in collections of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the Harvard Judaica Collection, the Library of Congress and Yale University Judaica Collection.