The Black Queen of Queens Is Solomon’S Song of Songs

By Tessie R. Simmons

There are different interpretations of the biblical book, Song of
Solomon. This is understandable because interpretations of the book
roots are in faith traditions and interpreters experiences of the Holy Spirit.
The different interpretations of the book of Song of Solomon give insight
that affirms God at work in the interpreters when the message of God is
heard anew through each approach. Some interpret Song of Solomon as
allegorical biblical text. This interpretation asserts the book of Song of
Solomon, as a love story between God and the church, or Christ and the
Church. Another allegorical interpretation of the book asserts the book,
Song of Solomon, as a love story between Christ and the soul.
Others interpret the book, Song of Solomon, as literal biblical text,
read in a normal way. One literal interpretation of the book, Song of
Solomon, asserts the book a love story between a young woman and a
youth, who is a shepherd. In this interpretation the young woman rejects
the love of the most powerful man on earth, Solomon, to embrace the love
of a young shepherd. She marries the shepherd, and their marriage blooms
in nature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469199665

Tessie R. Simmons

Dr. Tessie R. Simmons Tessie R. Simmons is founder of Love Dove Ministries, dedicated to sharing the Good News that Jesus is Lord. She is a former Methodist pastor, bereavement coordinator, chaplain, radio personality, and music teacher. Memphis Theological Seminary of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church recognizes her as Outstanding African-American graduate in 1970. Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University awards her the doctorate degree in 1999. Her book, Death and Dying Encounter Spirituals: A Pastoral Care Devotional for the Terminally Ill, provides caregivers a resource for spiritual care. She lives in Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1     Grieving For Kisses

Chapter 2     Love Begins In Community

Chapter 3     Grieving For Attention

Chapter 4     Living In The Palace

Chapter 5     The Grief Of Blackness

Chapter 6     Grief Demands An Explanation

Chapter 7     Ask What You Need To Ask

Chapter 8     Tell What You Need To Tell

Chapter 9     Love Sees Comparisons

Chapter 10   Love Gives

Chapter 11   Love Smells Sweet

Chapter 12   Love Smells Like Myrrh

Chapter 13   Courting Outside

Chapter 14   Two Of A Kind

Chapter 15   Love Brings Delight

Chapter 16   Love Waves A Banner

Chapter 17   Love Sickness

Chapter 18   Message To Seductresses

Chapter 19   Spring Time Is Love Time

Chapter 20   Little Foxes Stir Up Trouble

Chapter 21   He Feeds On Lilies

Chapter 22   A Time To Play

Chapter 23   Seek And Find

Chapter 24   Don’t Seduce Him

Chapter 25   The Royal Wedding Chariot

Chapter 26   The Royal Wedding

Chapter 27   The Honeymoon

Chapter 28   Love Grows

Chapter 29   A Wife Is A Garden Of Love

Chapter 30   Dreaming

Chapter 31   Why Do You Love Him

Chapter 32   Where Is Your Beloved

Chapter 33   He Returns With Love

Chapter 34   Running Away

Chapter 35   Return

Chapter 36   Love Is Beautiful

Chapter 37   Love Smells Like Mandrakes

Chapter 38   Jeaulosy

Chapter 39   Grieving His Time Of Rest

Chapter 40   Unrecognizable

Chapter 41   Love And Jealousy

Chapter 42   A Wall

Chapter 43   I Must Pay You

Chapter 44   Let Me Hear Your Voice

Chapter 45   Come To Me Quickly

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I dedicate this book to my 92 years old mother,

Alene Delaney Simmons.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work includes both the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, and Tessie R. Simmons (TRSV) version.

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PREFACE

There are different interpretations of the biblical book, Song of Solomon. This is understandable because interpretations of the book’s roots are in faith traditions and interpreters experiences of the Holy Spirit. The different interpretations of Song of Solomon gives insight that affirms God at work in the interpreters when the message is heard anew through each approach. Some interpret Song of Solomon as allegorical biblical text. This interpretation asserts the book of Song of Solomon, as a love story between God and the Church, or Christ and the Church. Another allegorical interpretation of the book asserts the book, Song of Solomon, as a love story between Christ and the soul.

Others interpret the book, Song of Solomon, as literal biblical text, read in a normal way. One literal interpretation of the book, Song of Solomon, asserts the book a love story between a young woman and a youth, who is a shepherd. In this interpretation, the young woman rejects the love of the most powerful man on earth, Solomon, to embrace the love of a young shepherd. She marries the shepherd and their marriage blooms in nature.

Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, this book also interprets Song of Solomon as literal biblical text. It is a love story between Solomon and a black woman whom he courts and marries. After years of marriage, the couple still loves each other and still talks of love for each other in sexual and sensual language.

This book shares moments of love between Solomon and the black woman throughout their courtship and marriage. No love moment moves beyond the Chapter in which it begins and ends. Love moments between Solomon and the black woman are no different from love moments between modern lovers. What differs is the book’s expression of those love moments. Love moments are moments when the eyes fall in love with the body. Eyes of love express that love in erotic and sensual speech. As love grows from courtship to marriage, erotic and sensual speech becomes holy expressions.

The black woman in Song of Solomon that Solomon courts and marries is unknown in history. She is not only unknown as a person; she is a nameless woman. We do not know her as a woman of history, but we do know the history of Solomon. The Hebrew Bible dates his history in the books of Samuel, I Kings, and I Chronicles. He is also mention in the Psalms. In the New Testament, gospel writers Matthew and Luke include Solomon in their account of the life and ministry of Jesus, the Christ. King Solomon’s biblical history gives creditability to the black woman as a