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Effect of Social Relationship on Sufferer: Based on Song of Songs 2-4

Lee Il Rye 1

1서울신학대학교

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Effect of Social Relationship on Sufferer: Based on Song of Songs 2-4 This article has investigated the effect of social relationship on sufferer and its positive and negative aspects. The concept of 'garden'(!G:) in Song of Songs 2 reminds us of Genesis 2-3. The concept of 'helper'(rz<[) in Genesis 2:18-25 is pivotal to understand God's creation and human disobedience, and it is a theological theme to connect between the two events. Adam's lost of a role as helper to have to help Eve who is exposed to the temptation of the serpent leads to the lost of their community the Garden of Eden (Gen. 4:12) and further changes the Garden to a doomed garden that has deep scars (Gen. 2-4). However, a winter garden in Song of Songs 2, which is a dwelling place of a suffered Shullammite woman and a closed place where oppresses her life, begins to be restored into a 'open garden' by her lover's calling her from the garden. The story of the lovers in Song of songs 2-4 also helps us understand the event of Abraham in Genesis 12, in particular, through a imperative verb Halah(%l;h'). When a man who is peeping through the windows calls her, he uses the words imperative form "arise"(ymiWq) and "let's go"(ykil.). Also, in Genesis 12:1, God requests Abraham to leave his hometown, relatives, and father's house and "go"(^l..-%l,) to the land that He will show him. The two stories that have the same motive "halah," however, gradually reach different theological conclusions. In Egypt where the desire of the powerful is at once order and commonsense, Abraham succumbs to Pharaoh who wants to possess a beautiful woman Sarah without hesitation, and Sarah also succumbs to Abraham's violence to her in another way. On the contrary, a Shullammite woman is different from Abraham and Sarah's choice. The restoration of the garden started with halah(%l;h') in Song of Songs 2 is realized by the great vision of a Shullammite woman in Song of Songs 3. As a wall and a window lattice that are between a Shullammite woman and her lover suggest, there are some risks before the winter garden is restored to a 'open garden.' However, a Shullammite woman resists the closed social structure, existing circumstance, and destiny. The suffering and risky situation of a Shullammite woman are overcame by her lover's calling her out and her answering his calling, and the garden is finally restored.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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